Little Baby Lydia: Grandpa, Grandma and Student Mom, Saga of Family Role Reversal and the New Times
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OLIVER OSITA. AKAMNONU
Akamnonu Associates Incorporated, Feb 13, 2018 - 228 pages
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A medical student is torn between having a baby and pursueing a career. She decides in favor of having a baby. She is faced with the arduous task of combining her new situation with the demands of her studies. With the baby's father thousands of miles across the Atlantic, embattled grandparents relearn a trade to save a nearly-disastrous situation
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Reviewed by Prof Ndu Eke
The author, Dr Oliver Akamnonu is a close secondary school contemporary. He has always displayed a proficiency in the liberal arts. The secondary school we attended, Government Secondary School, Afikpo, was science oriented. The graduates invariably went on to study Engineering, Medicine or the pure sciences. Dr Akamnonu was no exception. He studied medicine and went on to specialize in anaesthesiology before returning to his endowed vocation in the liberal arts as a master story teller. I have co-authored some three novels with him. On his own, he has published over 20 books
Dr Akamnonu’s books are based on reality. For legal niceties, he writes on real events but with imaginary casts. The book, ‘Little Baby Lydia’ comes from the same stable. True to character, ‘Little Baby Lydia’ belongs to an emerging generation of immigrants in which families are separated by circumstances predicating survival in hostile circumstances. Lydia was conceived in such circumstances. The mother was in pursuit of the Golden Fleece. For this, she had to leave her husband in their native country while she was pregnant. Her parents had earlier immigrated to God’s own country. This had become the Mecca of many fleeing economic deprivation, civil rights abuses or, more often, wanton insecurity challenges. The choice often was not easy to make.
The author has arranged this anecdote in 26 easy-to-read chapters for easy assimilation by readers. The chapters run from the circumstances of conception through emigration as a foetus to birth and early stages of childhood. Readers can easily appreciate the story because it depicts everyday experiences of many. Essential details are included in this odyssey, from pregnancy through labour to parturition.
Parts of the narrative are spiced with humor, a trademark of the author. The baby sitter, Mama Titi is a case in point
This book will serve all cadres of readers, from the secondary school students to young adults especially those wanting to raise a family and to prospective parents and grandparents. The emphasis on safety precautions in the home with little babies is elaborated. Community babysitting that was in vogue in indigenous communities has been alluded to. It certainly served a purpose. Unfortunately, the prevailing individualistic way of life in indigenous communities militates against it.
The book ‘Little Baby Lydia’ raises no anxieties except the short moment Lydia was held by a combination of mouse glue trap and furniture. As obviously deliberately contrived, this lack of anxiety is a great advantage to grandparents as well as student-moms all of who would need no further anxieties. The title of the book was aptly crafted and the many hand-drawn interior images were added relaxation.
All is well that ends well as the reader of this amazing poetry-spiced life odyssey looks forward to “Little Baby Lydia” to be continued.
Ndubuisi Eke, MB ChB, FRCS, FWACS; FICS
Urological Surgeon and Dr Melford Graham-Douglas Professor of Paediatric Surgery
University of Port Harcourt

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Title Little Baby Lydia: Grandpa, Grandma and Student Mom, Saga of Family Role Reversal and the New Times
Author OLIVER OSITA. AKAMNONU
Publisher Akamnonu Associates Incorporated, 2018
ISBN 194090918X, 9781940909189
Length 228 pages

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