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Title: The Dead Nurse Who Came For Her Baby
Adaeze, a nurse bled to death during her delivery. She died in the same hospital where she worked. Chinenye, a co-worker and close friend took her baby and nurtured. She grieved for Adaeze because she was her close friend.
After some days, Chinenye brought the baby to the hospital for circumcision. She gave the baby to a newly employed nurse for circumcision. She attended other nursing mothers and their babies. When the mothers began to depart with their babies, Chinenye became worried. She complained. The newly employed nurse was summoned. “Where is the baby” One other nurse questioned her.
“Where is the baby?” Chinenye asked forcefully. “Another nurse took the baby” The nurse answered. “I don’t know her name but she is fair complexioned”. Other nurses were astonished.
Further explanations from the new nurse suggested that the mother of the baby, who was the dead nurse took the baby. They reported to the matron of the ward. They all went to the mortuary with Chinenye and the new nurse for identification. In the dead nurse’s cubicle and clasped to her chest was the baby. He was already dead. Everybody was hysterical. “That was the baby” exclaimed the new nurse. She fainted.
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Adaeze, a nurse bled to death during her delivery. She died in the same hospital where she worked. Chinenye, a co-worker and close friend took her baby and nurtured. She grieved for Adaeze because she was her close friend.
After some days, Chinenye brought the baby to the hospital for circumcision. She gave the baby to a newly employed nurse for circumcision. She attended other nursing mothers and their babies. When the mothers began to depart with their babies, Chinenye became worried. She complained. The newly employed nurse was summoned. “Where is the baby” One other nurse questioned her.
“Where is the baby?” Chinenye asked forcefully. “Another nurse took the baby” The nurse answered. “I don’t know her name but she is fair complexioned”. Other nurses were astonished.
Further explanations from the new nurse suggested that the mother of the baby, who was the dead nurse took the baby. They reported to the matron of the ward. They all went to the mortuary with Chinenye and the new nurse for identification. In the dead nurse’s cubicle and clasped to her chest was the baby. He was already dead. Everybody was hysterical. “That was the baby” exclaimed the new nurse. She fainted.
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I was touched and moved when I read his write up.
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About His Father....
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Nigerian poet and scholar Ezenwa-Ohaeto was educated at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka and the University of Benin. The author of several collections of poetry, including Songs of a Traveller (1986), I Wan Bi President (1988), and Chants of a Minstrel (2002), Ezenwa-Ohaeto was one of the first Nigerians to publish poems written in pidgin English, bringing the cadence of a primarily oral language to the page. He is also the author of Chinua Achebe: A Biography (1997). His honors include a BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award and the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Cadbury Poetry Award. A critical overview of his work, Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing (2007), was edited by Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, and Geoffrey V. Davis.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto died of liver cancer in Cambridge, England, soon after arriving at the University of Cambridge as a visiting fellow in the African Studies Centre. some 10 years of painstaking enquiry are presented with sustained energy... Ezenwa-Ohaeto has completed a remarkable feat..." —West Africa
"... a gold mine of a source for future researchers." —The Literary Griot
"... in this meticulously researched work, [Ezenwa-Ohaeto] provides a wealth of information that should prove invaluable to all future studies of Achebe." —Library Journal
"Great back-up for classes reading Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." —Booklist
"This pioneering biography draws upon a wealth of printed and oral sources to produce a vivid record of the life and times of Africa’s most influential novelist. Ezenwa-Ohaeto is Achebe’s Boswell; nothing of importance, large or small, seems to escape him." —Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas
This is the first biography of the internationally acclaimed author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read African novel, first published in 1958 and now a classic, with more than 12 million copies in print. Things Fall Apart is a defining moment in African and world literature.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s biography is the first comprehensive account of Achebe’s life to date. Based on extensive research and numerous interviews, this is also the first work to trace the story of Achebe’s life while putting his achievement into a social and historical context.
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