Prof. Nagbe’s
New Book Is Out!
…copies can be bought from
publishamerica.com
PublishAmerica, a member of the Association of American Publishers, has released a new novel authored by Professor K-Moses Nagbe, one of Liberia’s foremost modern novelists, poets, and literary critics. The book, Tugging Whispers, is Professor Nagbe’s sixth book in five years. It is a sequel to The Road To Romeo, a short novel tracing the traumatic yet insightful experience of an eight-year-old girl whose father and brother were killed in a civil war. Joan now twenty-eight is in pursuit of a master’s degree in constitutional law and then a family life.
It is on this trail she meets a young man destined to change her life. They meet at the International Student Association conference where the man is awed by Joan Copper’s performance. He never forgets Joan’s “eloquent intervention,” following Dr. Paul Andrei’s paper on “Paradoxes of Civilization and Counter-balancing Factors.” The new novel captures a part of the drama:
True, the speaker did well, the young woman acknowledged when she took the floor. But she pointed out her suspicion that the Black World, as Dr. Andrei suggested, seemed to have had wars owing to inherent hatred its inhabitants harbor, one for another. It was contrarily the White World, the young woman continued, that, particularly in modern times, often instigated the untold wars to sell their weapons, to get raw materials cheaply, to build glamorous towns and cities in order to sustain the myth that only in that world lives a race capable at all times of nurturing and sustaining peace. She said it was useless counting documented cases, for even defecting undercover security forces in the so-called developed and civilized world often reeled off appalling confessions of machinations. She talked about the Angolan experience. She talked about that of Mozambique. She talked about Ethiopia and about Somalia. She talked about Rwanda. She did not leave out Chad.
She expressed strong suspicion that Sierra Leone, Liberia and even Uodama, her beloved country, had been victims of such clandestine networking. While she saw the need for the entire world to rid itself of war once and for all, she felt it was out of place for some scholars to consciously and continually slant history.
Tugging Whispers follows one of Professor Nagbe’s major themes: the celebration of the human capacity to transcend sordid chaos.
On the full release scheduled in just a few weeks, interested readers will be asked accordingly to visit www.publishamerica.com for personal copies.
Tugging Whispers
Eight-year-old Joan lost her father and her brother; they were killed by fighters at a checkpoint of her country’s heinous civil war. She too could have been killed, had Christiana (Teka), a female fighter, not intervened. Joan is now twenty-eight and is pursuing her master’s in constitutional law abroad. Beyond that, she intends
to start a family. Suddenly, she faces the need to choose between two men intent on taking her hand. One is Teka’s son, who left Africa when he was two. The other man is the son of a wealthy couple who died in the war that swept away Joan’s father and her brother. A dream is exciting, but multiple dreams competing simultaneously can be a nightmare. What is she going to do now? Be Joan’s guest through her storm of emotions.
K-Moses Nagbe has written children’s stories, short stories, poems, novels, essays, and literary studies. An African writer, he studied in West Africa, at the University of Liberia and the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, and in America, at Glassboro (Rowan) State University. His work usually celebrates the human capacity to transcend sordid chaos.
Prof K. Moses Nagbe can be reached at 240-462-2583
