
The Blemish
by Ozioko Emmanuel Jnr.
Prose
Published: 2007
Pages: 131
ISBN: 978-077-405-1
Description
Meet Ebube, a sweet precocious 13 year old who lived contentedly in Amankpo village haunted by the stigma of having a village drunkard as a father. Enter, Onochie, a runaway Uncle who had hitherto incommunicado comes to his village promising him heaven and earth if he took him to the city. Ebube soon makes startling discoveries in the city which forces him to skip his childhood as he becomes a gladiator in a battle to save his own life.