
The Intervention of the Oracle & Other Stories
by Oladele Babajamu
Prose
Published: 2018
Pages: 110
ISBN: 978-978-55481-7-4
Description
The Intervention of the Oracle provides insight into the Yoruba culture and belief in seeking solution from the gods in the affairs of men through the Oracle. It reveals the angle of telepathy in traditional approach to medicine in a community without modern health facility. The text message from presidency is a didactic on the pranks used by fraudsters to defraud the innocent citizens through the use of internet facility. Two children born the same day by the same parents with different destinies: This became the dilemma of their father. Security is not a cheap commodity as told in the story of Mallam Sale and his Black Bag. A pastor 's divine escape from the kidnapper's Den; Atinuke's ambition was to become a Lawyer. However, ambition and realities of life are different issues. These characters and their interactions would definitely make tis book an interesting one to read by scholars and lovers of good stories.