MAN’S inability to understand that the physical things before him, including himself are controlled by God, gave birth to, Wisdom: A Discovery In A Nation With A Broken Heart.
The 112 pages book by Anthonymaria Odukaesieme, a Medical Practitioner, Researcher in Marine Plants and a Complementary Technologist in Phyto Medicine, chronicles the journey of the author from Nigeria in 1997 to Bangkok-Thailand for a better business opportunities and contacts.
But when eventually his visa expires and he has to obtain a re-entry permit visa at a neighboring country in Laos through Thailand border, called Nongkai city, his efforts meet a brick wall as he is refused entry to Laos on grounds that there was no record of his entry to Thailand. He is held in custody for a period of seven months and three weeks.
The book records that while he is confined in Nongkai Central Prison the author takes a special interest in counseling over hundreds of prisoners, who mostly were children, and a nine year old who happens to be the youngest.
Although, faced language barrier there, they were able to understand his teachings which was therapeutic enough to ameliorate their sufferings while in confinement.
The sufferings of these lots and the murder of a defenseless inmate for refusing to adore the portrait of their king and god on the prison wall and the image of their goddess Imina Sakarina and other issues, resulted in Anthonymaria’s resolve to work as counselor as well as cry out to God for restoration of peace and harmony throughout the world.
He captures the scenario thus, “ Oh reader, feel the cry for wisdom, for truth and justice, the cry for freedom that generated democracy, and the freedom of worship. Feel the cry of a good conscience, a dying inmate in chains as he groaned in pains, similar to the pain and cry of Christ Jesus dehumanized on the cross: My God, My God, why have you deserted me.”
Shortly after the author’s release on 24th day of September 1999, the thought to become a moral crusader and defender of truth is fully ignited. The book which is presented in chapters exposes the inhumanity, selfishness and negative application of power by man to fellow men.
As events unfold, the author masterfully implores all to join hands in the fight for freedom from the devil, which all have, out of selfish and worldly desires, allowed to penetrate and misdirect their lives from the truth which is Jesus Christ.
The book emanates from the author’s travails in search of that which is unknown, is a piece of gold in the hand of any intending traveler to foreign land, as readers will think twice before making a step further.
Readers will no doubt, learn from the author’s experience especially where knowledge of truth and wisdom, lifted him from the state of despondency to the unshakeable base.
With its contents devoid of errors, compact and with esthetically designed cover which readily captures one’s interest, “Wisdom: A Discovery In A Nation With A Broken Heart” comes as a more dignifying approach to disseminating avenues towards restoring moral values to readers.
Anthonymaria’s life
changing documentation comes at a right time when the need to re-brand the characteristics of a people in a Country where tugs are the friends of the law, where promiscuity, drug and human trafficking as well as child abuse have surpassed a concerned issue of debate for posterity.The book is therefore, recommended for everyone’s reading pleasure.