Chief Editor's Notes One Year Pregnancy Edited by Fortune Nwaiwu "One Year Pregnancy" is a story powerfully told to display the life of a teenager who lives under a terrible curse laid by her school teacher. She grows and becomes a wealthy business woman, but her joy as a successful woman is daunted and prone to a serious antsy, and averse to repose, when she married Udochukwu and became pregnant. Her pregnancy that has lingered to a year nearly brings a doom to her faith, and marriage. She seeks solution for her problem from a priest who only discovers the cause of her problem but without finding a solution. What will Nkechi do to save her life since she has gone to different places, including prayer houses with no solution to her problem? At this time, Nkechi is marooned in an endless grief. It is crystal clear to her that her plight is not an ordinary one, but one contracted by her teenage misdemeanour -- a violence done on her school teacher who disciplin
LIVE AGAIN BY BEAUTY CHIDINMA NWAIWU A BOOK REVIEWED BY FORTUNE NWAIWU Live Again is a socio-religious discourse graphically written as a comforting balm against the odds and miserable conditions of life. It’s written to give hope to the downtrodden, the poor masses and to the political burgoists who have been affected by fate in one way or the other that they can live again. Live Again as a title takes its allusions from the Bible, Ezekiel 37: 5 - 6, where God commanded his prophet to prophesy that the dry bones will live again. Also in John 11: 25 Jesus said to Martha that if anyone believes in him even if he dies, he will live again. The writer, Chidinma Nwaiwu was inspired to write in the lens of muse and this text is her visionary medium through which she whispers hope to the hopeless that they can still make it in life, no matter what. The front cover of the book shows a dim-light-red colour used to design live again, and there is a ray of light coming out from the word “live” w