THE BOOK OF CALEB

About the Book

Born in Onitsha Nigeria, a 4-year-old boy by the name of Chukwudi migrates to America with his mother and sister and almost completely loses his identity in the American institutionalized school system. Along with the peer pressure to look, talk, walk and live American, and fueled by media propaganda, it takes Chukwudi fifteen years before he reconnects with the Spiritual umbilical cord of Africa and another seven years before he frees his mind from the shackles "the land of the free" chained him to. Take an eight month journey with Chukwudi from May 1 of 2011 to December 29 of the same year and feel the turbulence on this fast track acceleration to self awareness when Spiritual consciousness is fed up with knocking at ones door and bust through mental levies like the waters of Hurricane Katrina. Travel through the mind of a once-brainwashed immigrant who was forced to pledge his allegiance to a foreign countries agenda. Feel the fire when the mind gets higher and then feel the blaze that brings the mental barbwires down to a glistening glaze. Take a hard look at the well-planned out maze that put some clueless families in a permanent daze. See how having inner-peace, love, and joy soothes pain. Know what breaks the evil hypnotic gaze. Then marvel at how the crawling caterpillar becomes a beautiful, aerial, multicolored, vibrant butterfly.

About the Author

Chukwudi Caleb Udeh was born in Nigeria but moved to the United States at the age of 4 with his mother and one of his sisters. It did not take long for Chukwudi to realize that to fit in to American society he would have to drop the little he knew of his African roots. His family settled in San Diego, California, where he went through the public school system from 1st to 12th grade, graduating from Morse High School. Caleb followed his mother’s instructions and enrolled in college. He specialized in Respiratory Therapy, graduating with an Associate in Science at Grossmont College in El Cajon. A year later, Caleb found himself in New Orleans, where he began a journey that brought him back to consciousness. Caleb was raised in a very strict religious home with his mother and father being devote servants of the Lord. His father came to the U.S. in the early 1980’s through the help of an American missionary and in 1985, his wife and two of his kids were allowed to receive visa’s and travel to America, however, two were left behind. On May 6, 1990, Caleb’s mom had her first son in America, Chukwuedozie Joshua Udejinegwo. Every morning, the Udejinegwo family woke up to read the bible and pray before they left the house to repeat the same devotion before they rested their heads at night. Every Sunday and Wednesday, you can find the Udejinegwo family in a Baptist or Pentecostal church, praising God with their hands, feet, with music, instruments and tithes and offering. One major inspiration Caleb had as a child was to write a book. The Book of Caleb was put in his “bucket list” of things to do at young age because of his competitive nature with the birth of his brother Joshua. Caleb recalls reading the books of the Old Testament with his father orating and asking, “Why is there a Book of Joshua and no Book of Caleb?” Little did he know then the power of thought and here we are today, August 10, 2012, finishing the last touches of the Book of Caleb.