Sapped not Trapped

About the Book

His hero in the novel, Domi, portrays the life of a typical Jaba boy hardworking and highly sensitive, brave but very vulnerable, confident, and courageous, with so much intellectual potentials and resilience, yet limited by several factors. From the onset, Domi’s peculiar birth circumstances flash a bit of the challenges he was born to face as a half orphan in a very large but divided extended family and clan. As Domi grows up, the plot transits between the fictional Ham village of Zaza and the city settings, with each presenting thrilling and weird obstacles that he struggles to overcome. The Jaba culture and traditional beliefs are craftily interwoven with the modern trends in a boiling pot of unstable sociopolitical and unbearably harsh economic conditions that he must drink from to survive.

About the Author

Austin Gadzama has proven his versatility as an author and novelist. It all started with Your Capacity is the Master Key to Greatness, then An Innocent Child in a Terrorist World, The Beautiful Colours of Peace, and now, his first fictional novel, Sapped, Not Trapped, is set to dominate the literary world as an African masterpiece. It displays the very rich cultural heritage of the Ham people in such a unique way that his artistic ancestors who made the famous Nok terra-cotta will be proud of. The author, playwright, and novelist comes from Kurmin Musa District of Southern Kaduna. A graduate of English/geography from COE Kafanchan and a graduate of international studies from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, he has now established himself as an exceptional contemporary writer with an uncanny ability to pick up relevant themes from different aspects of human endeavour.