The Wizards Who Flew into America
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About the Book
Those who are interested in very strange tales of sorcery will find this book one of the most mysterious stories ever. This story with intriguing plot will tower above top ranking creative books based on sorcery and magic. It reminds a young or adult reader, that despite modernization and technological advancement, man draws his sources of strength and living from the soul and spirits. The book is an outstanding imaginative creation with relevance to contemporary issues of terrorism. It is full of action and drama.
The Wizard Who Flew Into America is a story about a strange world. It begins on an island in the Atlantic Ocean and climaxed in the United States of America. Full of suspense, it is written by an accomplished story-teller who draws ideas on African traditional resources of gods, myths, spirits and magic and relates them to modern European and American way of life.
First published as an ebook, subscribers awarded the story 6.80 star points - out of ten star-points. The book takes readers on a journey into the world of crime and it is full of bizarre tales spiced with humor, which will hold readers spellbound from the beginning to the end.
About the Author
Tunde Akingbade is an award winning journalist, environmentalist and playwright. He attended University of lfe, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Lagos, International Institute Journalism, Berlin, Germany and University of Calabar where he had his post graduate degree.
He is Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) winner of Journalist of the Year 1992 and Artists' Angel of Vermont Studio Centre, USA in 2001.He participated in the Young African Leaders Program of the United States Information Agency in 1993, which enabled him to study environmental protection efforts across USA and worked on non fiction writing at the Vermont Studio Center..
His works have been presented at Freie University, Berlin, European Union of Science Journalists function, Budapest, Hungary, British Council, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, British Voluntary, Service Overseas.
Akingbade has traveled widely in
Nigeria, USA, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and India. He has
attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences
(UNFCCC) and United Nations Convention on Desertification Conferences in
Germany, the Netherlands and India. He began the writing of The Wizard Who
Flew Into America in the town of Johnson, Vermont and concluded the work in
Rolla, Missouri. His other works are: The Famished King and The Mystery
Head, All Men Are Devils and other Stories, Forgotten African Stories, Nigeria:
On The Trail of The Environment, Shuttle from Wasteland-Political and
Environmental Imbalance Between. Africa and USA.