Bøger af Kyuka Lilymjok

From seeing the masquerade dance, Bajon sees much more than dancing. He sees human hypocrisy and folly in the masquerade and goes out to expose these maladies of humanity by telling the masquerade, which all human beings are, how badly he dances.Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: Broke, Wind Scripts, The Dark Star North, The Death of Eternity, and The Disappointed Three.

Pristine and unpolluted, the earth is the green star north to spirit beings in Kenon two planets away from the earth. When the earth gets polluted and defiled losing its green colour that improves the sights of spirit beings in Kenon, the earth turns dark and is now called the dark star north by the spirit beings. When spirit beings led by Jerol set out to stop pollution and degradation of the earth by humans, it seems catastrophe is let loose and there is no hope of recovery for the earth - the dark star north.

Wars flare out in Tartari from poor reasoning and are fuelled by poor reasoning. While no one can make sense of the wars, the wars are making hell for everyone.

Teka stumbles on the old woman and the birds in the forest. He is mystified by both into thoughts and beliefs hitherto weird to him.

Return of the Oracle and other short stories is a collection of short stories that speak to the present and future as much as to the past. While laughing at the follies of the past, these stories chart a path for a more discerning future as they rebuke the indiscretions of the present.

Iviodo imagines and wills to existence pristine highland. Years later, the pristine highland of Mundi is found. Iviodo and his family go to live on the highland said to make people living on it immortal. Other families soon join Iviodo and his family on the highland. The highland keeps its promise of immortality as long as the people living on it behave. Iviodo and other people living on the highland behave, and so no one living on the highland died in a century. Death finally died. Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: Our Lady with the Sword, The Butcher's Wife, Ebelebe, Return of the Oracle and other Short Stories, and Hope in Anarchy.

Finding himself in a huge fortune with nothing to do, Felipe decides to travel round the world to places sick things are happening. When he is done, he knows the world is truly a sick place - a sick place without a cure.

Kailee starts out as one obsessed with science and technology only to be let down by the duo he sees as the pathway to the heaven of the earth. When this happens, Kailee turns against science and technology in a blistering campaign that exposes the dark side of science and technology; in a campaign that lands him in court that consumes him as persecuted; in a court the persecutor realizes the persecuted has been fighting for him as for everyone and everything on earth.

A pupil of a primary school in a backwater African village tells the story of his enigmatic and inspiring headmaster with verve and touching simplicity. From the headmaster's refined manners and cultivated appearance to his father-figure image that inspires discipline in his pupils, Bamai the protagonist of this moving story full of homespun wisdom, living anecdotes and pastoral allegories, provokes a nostalgia and reminiscence of a lost past and innocence we all strive to regain - a lost past and innocence this epic tale gives an opportunity to live again.

Fair Moree is frightened by what he sees happening around the world. Suspecting the devil to be responsible for what is going on in the world, he writes the Prince of Darkness a long letter pleading with him to have mercy and retrace his steps. This novella bears the letter he wrote the devil. It is a dark letter that can only be read in the dark.

Chased by drought and famine, Yacita and his people find an oasis in the desert and make it their new homestead. But the greed and ambition of a few people soon bring disaster and disappointment to man, Bayanga - the god of the desert, and the oasis. In this tragicomedy play, the vulgar desires of man, the quiet purpose of a god and the legitimate expectations of nature are locked in mortal conflict.

After losing her son to suicide bombing and her grandson to a gunman on a shooting spree, heartbroken Anette goes through history exhuming the corpses of injustice that lay buried under the earth, blaming the goddess of justice for all cases of injustice. When someone she knows is an armed robber and a murderer wins the Nobel Prize for Peace, Anette's disillusionment with the goddess of justice is complete. She whines and kicks only to fall under the sword of injustice herself.

Imka the vulture cannot find food in the forest; neither can he see any other vulture. He sets out for the city where he finds so many vultures. There is food in the city when Imka arrives. But there is also death. Sakko, Imka's friend, falls into a trap and dies of hunger and misery in the straits of desolation. Later, food also forsakes the city, and Imka together with two other vultures, set out for Parsee country where they hope to find food only to be overtaken by blight and ruination on the way.Imka the vulture cannot find food in the forest; neither can he see any other vulture. He sets out for the city where he finds so many vultures. There is food in the city when Imka arrives. But there is also death. Sakko, Imka's friend, falls into a trap and dies of hunger and misery in the grind of desolation. Later, food also forsakes the city, and Imka together with two other vultures, set out for Parsee country where they hope to find food only to be overtaken by blight and ruination on the way.

The rainmaker and blacksmith are actors of sorts, and Warru is a theatre that finds both the rainmaker and blacksmith performing their art of rainmaking and blacksmithing. The village's theatre depicts more the unseemly characters of the two artisans than a real theatre would. The palm wine tapper, only a minor actor in the drama, stands by watching the play of manners and action between the rainmaker and blacksmith building to a tragedy, now and then stepping in to provide comic relief; ultimately rescuing the village from a tragedy neither the rainmaker nor blacksmith could. Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels by the author include Farewell to Peace, Bivan's House, Sieged, The Deportee, The Disappointed Three, and Don't Forget to tell the Masquerade.

The wind is the god of birds. Scripts of the god of the birds suddenly appear on the wings of butterflies. As abruptly as they appeared, the scripts after centuries of appearing, disappear. Winding and winging in, the Wind Scripts winded and winged out leaving the birds disillusioned and cheerless.