Description

The novel, Waves of Pain, is a critical comment on the issues affecting the girl-child especially those who are less privileged, which encapsulates the themes of parental/guardian negligence, child-maltreatment, child-sexual abuse and similar other corresponding matters as well as the attendant consequences as they bear on the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of the girl-child and relationships thereof, In this thought-provoking and intriguing piece, Tartaver asks his uncle Kwaghzever for a child which he sends over to his daughter married in Adikpo, to serve her as a nanny. The request though supposedly declined by Kwaghzever, ostensibly includes also, the training of Hembafan, the girl in question, at school. The unfolding events that follow prove the opposite of the initial good intentions which leads to loss of sanity by the protagonist and subverts close family ties.