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Dream
of Paradise
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Author:
Lere Shakunle Binding: Paperback
(pp: 280) ISBN: 978-8182531772 Availability: In Stock
(Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date:
2010 Condition: New About
the Book:
The book is about
a person who has a dream for his village, Akanti
Oke. The protagonist, Eniola, would like to change
this village to a place where you don’t have to
trek kilometers to fetch water from the river that
disappears with the summer and where the mood of
the weather no longer determines what the land can
produce just because what modern agriculture
promises is beyond what the people can afford if
they know it at all. But as we dream of paradise,
like the protagonist,
we don’t want to lose the serenity of the
village, yes would love to welcome the hens and
the chicks back home, so to say, in the evening,
would like to retain the beautiful songs of the
birds one of which wakes us up, indeed wakes up
the protagonist in summer and what about the sky
– forever blue in this part of the world and
remains so in the hearts of romance that can dream
– we would like, with the protagonist, to
commune with its silence, the silence of the
trees, wonderful companions in times of need and
so, the protagonist dreams of a modern city as a
blend of the silent romantic figure of the village
and the lovingly seductive look of the park.
In
the novel, there is the enemy who is disputing the
paradise. It is not going to be smooth-.sailing to
paradise. It has never been easy in all of history
for people
whose works with their ways of life is an
embodiment of paradise that they are, that each
person is, each tree is, each rumble of the waves
and the rolling of the tides are. But in the end,
after the intrigues and investment in agents of
the enemy of paradise, the hurrah cry of joy
greets the arrival of paradise – at last. But
how? Or did it really happen at all, when at the
celebration something got thrown into the hub? The
story invites the reader to the exploration of the
world within in the world without, indeed the
dream in reality and reality in the dream.
Akanti
Oke, whose name is changed to Okanbori, is a
prototype of this world as a village. As a
village, the world is waiting for every person for
the realization of the paradise within in the
world, yes for the transformation of this world
into a paradise, better still to transfigure the
world such that former things are passed away for
the birth of a new heaven and earth.
About
the Author: LERE
OYEBISI SHAKUNLE is a journalist, mathematician
and writer. Lere wrote and directed the
play, Tinuke, Beauty Queen of Oyo Empire, which
was performed in Berlin in September 2007. Lere
Shakunle travelled to the Federal Republic of
Germany to do Mathematics, Physics and Social
Science at the University of Goettingen in Germany
during which time he founded a new mathematics
called Transfigural Mathematics (TfM). The year
was 1985. Since then Lere has written more than
twenty books, most of them in manuscript form
(most of them available at the Library of Congress
in Washington), and has presented papers on
Transfigural Mathematics throughout the world,
including one at the International Congress of
Mathematicians, Berlin 1998 and another at the
40th Anniversary Celebration of the Discovery of
DNA in Chicago in 1993. Lere
is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the
Journal of Transfigural Mathematics (JTfM) - an
interdisciplinary journal of mathematics,
sciences, literature and arts - and is
Director/Founder of The Matran School, an
International School for Cross-Disciplinary
Creativity. Lere was invited to
the first-ever African Brain Gain Conference in
Nairobi, Kenya in December 2004 to present papers
on how to put Africa on the map, both
scientifically and technologically. Before coming
to the Federal Republic of Germany, Lere worked as
a journalist with the Nigerian Broadcasting
Service (reporter, co-producer), the Nigerian
Television Service (reporter) The Daily Times
(sub-editor, reporter), Student Magazine
(Editor-in-Chief, Co-Publisher) and African Spark
(Editor). In the Federal Republic, still a
student, he launched a new magazine on
international relations with a former fellow
German student, Anja Schuckart, who later
became his wife. Lere
is a member of The New York Academy of Sciences,
The American Mathematical Society, The
Mathematical Association of America, The Chartered
Institute of Journalists (UK-Ireland) and NIDO,
Germany.
Lere
and his wife Anja, a fellow student at the
University of Göttingen, currently live in Berlin
with their children.
www.transfig-math.de
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