Mangoes In The Rain
Subtitle: No one can take away your imaginations
By: Mike Babatunde
Edition: Mangoes In The Rain
Series: No
Publisher: Self published
Published: January 15,2020
Place of publication: Uniteds of America’s
Format: Paperback, ebook, kindle
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9798600562226
Copyright date: No
Notes: In 2002, fifteen-year-old Chinaemelum leaves America, to go to Nigeria for summer break. Months later, she fights for her life against malaria.  Summer is over and her father refuses to give her back her passport to return to America with her mother. She is kept in Nigeria against her will, he puts her in a all girls boarding school, where she struggles to adapt to life, in a 3rd world country. Two and a half years later, she and her siblings escape out of their fathers house to the American Embassy in Lagos for hopes of leaving Nigeria. She is adamant about expressing her trauma of abandonment, abuse, and her survival mechanism then and now. Out of this tragedy, she's able to overcome and be of a success today. She voices the portrayals of her childhood and teen years growing up Nigerian American in America to Nigerian parents.Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, by a Christian Pastor and wife, life is portrayed in public as a God fearing couple, but behind close doors chinaemelum witness her father often beating her mother. He eventually begins to abuse Chinaemelum, by calling her a hoar and a prostitute at age 13. Chinaemelum had high hopes when she heard she was going to Nigeria for the summer. She had no idea the gravity of the horrific adventure about to take place.
Table of contents: title: CHAPTER 1	1; title: The anticipation	1; title: CHAPTER 2	5; title: The Sunday rituals	5; title: CHAPTER 3	10; title: Battles of the mind.	10; title: Unexpected Realities	16; title: CHAPTER 5	24; title: Life of a wanderer	24; title: CHAPTER 6	36; title: Watching everybody go	36; title: CHAPTER 7	44; title: Failing my Gift	44; title: CHAPTER 8	52; title: Big Nigerian school, bigger Nigerian problem	52; title: CHAPTER 9	62; title: Struggling Americana Girl	62; title: CHAPTER 10	72; title: A Ray of Hope	72; title: CHAPTER 11	86; title: The Parting hug	86; title: CHAPTER 12	91; title: America remained the same, but I never was.	91; title: ABOUT THE AUTHOR	104