THE CURSE OF A WIDOW
Publisher: Pona Printing press Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Nigeria
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 31
Description: This is a story of a destitute
widow who was severelly
oppressed by a wealthy wicked
man called Chief Mbanu in a
village called Umunka.
     This wealthy evil man had all
he needed to make his life
comfortable and enjoyable, and
he was one of the richest men in
the whole village of Umunka.
      Irrespective of all he had,
Chief Mbanu still fiendly and
unfriendly oppressed an indigent
widow called Mrs. Ugboghara
who lived behind his mansion.
     Chief Mbanu villainly
intimidated, terrorized and
subjected this poor widow
through various  sorts of evil
ways just because she had no
one to speak for her. She only
had a male child called Chidubem,
who was still very young to react
when this evil bloke was
awkwardly manifesting.
Chief Mbanu did all sorts of evil to
the widow such as cutting and
claiming her palm-fruits,
forcefully claiming and carrying
her bread fruits, extorting her
remaining skimpy portions of
land, among other evil he did to
her.
     Whenever this widow
convoked the elders of the village
to a meeting to look into the
hostility and oppression, majority
of them would unreasonably
stand for Chief Mbanu because of
his personality and what they
could get from him, because
most of them ate in the same
plate with him. Their supports
would boast  Chief Mbanu's
elbow and fuel him to proceed
with his evil deeds, and that
would silence and demoralize the
widow. Upon her condition,
Mbanu never changed his mind
upon her.
      The one that paid this widow
most was that one day, chief
Mbanu ordered his guards to cut
down the most fruitful trees that
this indigent widow had. He said
that he wanted to use them for
an un-ascertained something
that he claimed, was more
important to him. But his major
intention for doing that was to
pauperize the widow.
     As the cutting down of the
trees was going on, the widow
saw that and start shouting
highly against Chief Mbanu, and
calling  for help from.
  Chief Mbanu saw that as a humiliation and downcast to his
personality, therefore he ordered
his gaurds to mercilessly beat up
the widow.
     Without wasting much time,
these hoodlums jump into the
assignment and started beating
up the widow as commanded by
their master.
     As the painful beating was
going on, because of the agony
of the pains they infilcted on the
poor widow, she could not bear
it anylonger. She sorrowfully
raised her voice and As the
painful beating was going on,
because of the agony of the
pains they infilcted on the poor
widow, she could not bear it
anylonger. She sorrowfully raised
her voice and placed an
irrevokable curse upon chief
Mbanu. She said: ''Chief Mbanu of
Umunka, since you did all these
sorts of evil against me and still
had the heart to send your
gaurds to beat me to death
because i have no one to speak
for me, one of your descendants
shall be excessively rascal,
mischievous, a shameful
personality and a famous felon
both in the village and in city. ''I
place this curse in the presence
of sky and moon, it shall be
fulfilled and so shall it perpetually
be upon you for ever and evr,
amen.
     After this sorrowfull curse, she
shouted with a high voice and
painfully succumb to the hand
death.
     Chief Mbanu did not even care
to put the curse into
consideration, talk less of taking
proactive measure about it. He
rather considered himself as the
unbeatable giant who had won
the battle.
Could a sorrowful curse like this
ever melt away without coming
to pass?? No,
      After so many generations
and descendants had come and
gone, on the fifth generation, the
manifestation of the curs
awkwardly began. And that
posed great challenges to the
generation outright.
   How did it happen and how
could it be revoked since the
widow was no more.
     To get the buttom of the
interesting story and follow the
scenario to the end, contact the
author (Izunna I. Okafor) for
supply via: 08163938812.
Email:
izunnaokafor70@gmail.com
Table of contents: title: Copyright, Dedication, Acknowlegement, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7