Book of the Month: A Love Rekindled

Myne Whitman is the most hardworking Nigerian romance novelist. She is also the most active online. Her second romance novel A Love Rekindled is our Book of the Month. You will enjoy it.



Ten years ago, Efe Sagay dreams of winning the United States Visa Lottery, until she meets Kevwe Mukoro in University. Kevwe is happy to remain in Nigeria; only he wants Efe by his side. Over time, Efe finds true love with Kevwe, and promises to marry him. Their dreams unravel when Efe wins an American Visa, and fresh violence erupts between their warring ethnic groups. Now, Efe is back in Nigeria, and she knows it’s a matter of time before Kevwe returns to her life. They finally meet again, but renewed desire is no match for bitter memories of heartbreak. Efe wants the traumatic events of the past resolved before she gives in to rekindled love.



A Love Rekindled is the second romance novel of Myne Whitman, a Nigerian author based in the US.




Myne Whitman is my pen name. I was born and raised in Enugu, Nigeria, where I spent most of my time, studying, reading and daydreaming or climbing trees and playing with the boys. I have a Master's degree in Public Health Research but have chosen my childhood dream of spinning stories. After a few years in Edinburgh, Scotland, I now live with my husband in Seattle, USA. I write and blog full-time, and also volunteer as an ESL tutor for a local charity. I critique with the Seattle Eastside Writers Meet-up and I'm also a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.

The Pacific Northwest of America is a great place but during the drizzling winter rains, I dream of long, hot, Nigerian days and the red palm oil of Banga Soup. A self-confessed adrenaline junkie, I love theme park rides and my wildest ride yet would be the Simpsons at Universal studios, Hollywood. Or maybe it was that reverse bungee jump I did in Scotland, hmm...lol.

In addition to writing popular fiction to get people reading, I am passionate about using the internet and social media to promote the book industry and literacy levels in Nigeria. To this end, I facilitated a session, "Social Media and the Book Publishing Industry", for the Publisher's Forum at the 2010 Garden City Literary Festival, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I also founded and work as the publisher and managing editor of NaijaStories.com, a critique website for aspiring Nigerian writers.

Click here to buy Myne Whitman's novels

Oleku the Video-Ice Prince Feat. Brymo

The is the official Oleku Video of Ice Prince Featuring Brymo.



I have watched Ice Prince in a live performance of his hit single Oleku and seeing this video is really going to increase his mileage and patronage.

Dreams Do Come True

17 Jan 2009 00:10 Africa/Lagos

Dreams Do Come True

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Benjamin Ola. Akande, Dean of Webster University School of Business & Technology:


As a child growing up in Nigeria, I was a dreamer. My parents never dismissed my dreams. They were always encouraging. No matter how outright unbelievable my dreams were, they would assure me that dreams do come true. Dreams provide a glimpse of what the future will look like. I wish I could have recorded all those dreams.


Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was recorded. It was a dream that was played out in front of thousands of people and like most dreams, no one really knew how it would play out. As the dream was recalled over the years, it became clear that this was a significant and compelling vision of the future. Martin's dream was in the form of a remarkable prose on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Most of us can hear him recite this dream in our subconscious. "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." It is a dream that visualizes a future where all those things that seemed impossible and improbable will happen despite overwhelming obstacles.


Barack Obama

The election of Barack Obama was a manifestation of Martin's dream. I would like to believe that Martin Luther King's dream highlighted how difficult it is to make change happen. Martin spoke about how mountains and hills (obstacles) shall be made lower and rough places (institutional changes) will be made straight. The recognition was that monumental changes of this magnitude take considerable time. Indeed, it takes the force of nature to break through the harsh reality of status quo and history.


Dreaming enables us to transcend the present and position us on the balcony for a better view of the future. And, because dreaming offers no restrictions, the greatest dreamers are often characterized as crazy and out of touch with reality. What history has shown us is that you may vilify them, you can criticize them, and you may even assassinate them. But, you can't kill a dreamer's dream. MLK's dream took a long time to come to fruition, with small significant steps and some big setbacks along the way. But on Nov. 4, 2008, the full realization of the great civil rights leader's dream came to pass with the election of a junior senator from Illinois as the first African American President of The United States of America..


Martin Luther King taught us that adversity is a lot easier to overcome than success. And that is the power of dreams. He knew it would happen. He even foresaw that his own demise may keep him from seeing his dream come true. "I've seen the promised land," he said. "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land." Forty-five years later, his vision is still unfolding. But one thing is crystal clear. Dreams do come true.


Source: Webster University School of Business and Technology

CONTACT: Susan Kerth of Webster University, +1-314-246-8232


Web Site: http://www.webster.edu/

Michael Okon is Hot and You Are Not!

Michael Okon is one hot Nigerian actor and he makes others to look ordinary!
Read the exclusive interview in the latest edition of Supple magazine.
The Nigerian movie star is going places.

Michael Okon Is Too Hot!

Michael Okon

Michael Okon the rising star of Nollywood is the one of the hottest actors alive and he is the cover story of the latest edition of Supple magazine in Nigeria.

The exclusive interview with never seen before photographs of the handsome Nigerian actor and Nollywood sex symbol is published only in the magazine to be released on Monday November 3, 2008.

This is just my teaser before the real hot sauce on Monday.


©Supple Magazine, 2008. All rights reserved. The following photograph must not be copied, published or redistributed in any format without the permission of the copyright owner.

Caution: Pretty Girls Crossing

Caution: Pretty Girls Crossing

Beauty inspires genius.I adore the Almighty God at the first sight of any object of beauty, from the beautiful face of my darling lover to the dazzling allure of a blossoming pink hibiscus flower in the sunlight. The alluring power of beauty cannot be denied.

The heart of man skips a beat at the sight of a beautiful woman.He swallows lumps of saliva as he ogles at her. His Adam’s apple bulges as his crotch bulges. Gosh!A man almost veered off the main road whilst ogling at a pretty and sexy babe on a street in Lagos. The object of his admiration was the kind of pretty babes my mom called car stoppers, the babes who make drivers to stamp on the brakes in awe!

The desire for a pretty and sexy woman sets a man on fire, burning in the fiery flames of lust. Even the loins of a castrated man burns in the presence of a pretty and sexy woman.

In the daily traffic of commuters in the crowdy and rowdy mega city of Lagos, the pretty girls stand out like the exotic water lilies of the Nile, a pure delight to sight. Drivers often slow down as a pretty woman is about to cross the road. She makes heads to turn on the street.

The best places to see pretty girls and ladies in Lagos city are often the shopping malls, from the Mega Plaza on Victoria Island to the Palms in Lekki. You can also see many of them strolling on the Marina in Lagos, on the Adeniran Ogunsanya Street in Surulere, on Allen Avenue and Toyin Street in Ikeja, on Awolowo Road in Ikoyi and on Adeola Odeku Street on Victoria Island.

The pretty working class ladies in their skirt suits and pantsuits seem to be on fashion parade during the hours of lunch break as they go out walking tall in their low heels or high heels. Watching a pretty working class lady walking down the staircase is worth all your attention in respect of the beauty of womanhood. She looks best if she is chic!Admiring pretty women in their trendy fashion crossing the street makes my day.

What’s next?

Caution: Ugly Girls Crossing?

There are no ugly girls or women in my world.

Anyway, no woman is ugly, except she is ignorant of her own beauty.

The Beautiful Ones Are in Nigeria.

Sasi,
The beautiful ones are being born and I have met them.
One of them came yesterday, beautiful brown skin and long braids and flashing white teeth and with soft voice.
She waited for an hour, because I was busy and I later joined her.
We spoke about the romance of life in Lagos.
She has kept herself and walked with her head high.
Yes, you can be pretty and sexy and party and still remain pure and true.
"I am back now and we are going places," I said.
I saw the glints in her brown eyes.
She has the unique poetic beauty that is not common.
She is a Nigerian sweetheart and she is not the only one in Nigeria.
We have many Nigerian sweethearts who are still pure and true.
They have beauty with dignity and integrity and yes, Sasi, I love them all.

N.B:
The photographs are coming.

Big, Beautiful and Inspiring

Queen Latifah

Big, beautiful and inspiring

This is based on my past experience, so readers should not jump to conclusions.

If I am given a choice of a thin woman, a slim woman and a buxom woman (like Queen Latifah) I will choose the buxom woman.
Call her fat, but I prefer to call her big.
I find big and beautiful women more anatomically inspiring.
How?
Have you seen a big woman and a slim woman before an artist, and the artist can tell you that the contours and colors of the big woman have more depth than the slim woman.
A woman with more depth is more inspiring.

Have you been to a Nigerian Owambe party and you see these big beautiful Nigerian women in the traditional Yorùbá dress of Buba and Iro and shoes?
Have you seen the way heads turn to look at them?
Have you seen them dancing?
Gyrating and swaying their waist?
Gosh!
They are awesome.
And they know that they are ultra-sexy and sexier than the slim ones.

When dancing with the big woman, you can rest your hands on her booty and your hands will not slip away.
But when dancing with the slim woman, you have to hold her waist, because her booty is not large enough to rest your hands and appreciate the physical geography of the round buttocks.

Have you seen a big woman in a towel?
Wow!
I loved to see the one I spent 11 days and 11 nights with in Lagos in the 1990s.
I loved to see her in her towel going to the bathroom.
Then see her in her hot jeans shorts like the one the Jamaican X-rated singer Patra (Dorothy Smith) made popular in the early 1990s.

Next, see her in her night gown and you would be in Cloud 9 and finally watch her lying naked in bed and when you commence making love to her, you can keep going deeper and deeper for as long as you wish.
She has more depth, like a gold mine.
The rest is history.
Have you read the Song of Solomon?
The woman who inspired King Solomon to compose those explicit romantic words was a big beautiful woman and not a slim woman.

Even slim women develop goose pimples when this special breed of big women get close to their guys.

Ask the men who have seen the difference and they will confirm what I am saying.

Miss. Bullshit and other Tissues of Lies

A woman without scruples
Will do anything to succeed.

She will lie, slander, blackmail, sleep around and do other horrible and terrible things to continue her dubious and vacuous life of conceit and deceit.

She has to tell another lie to cover up the previous lie and before you know it, she has become an epitome of falsehood.

She lies to a man that she does not have a relationship.
She lies that she is not having sex.
She lies that she does not have any man in her life for her financial needs.

The fact is, she has an inferiority complex and she has to lie in her posing and posturing with false airs and graces.

If she is not afraid of her true state, she would not lie to anyone.

She has to lie to lure him into giving her what she wants or to lure him into a relationship.

I am often baffled by the way people live just to impress their so-called peers.

Their lives have little or nothing to offer humankind, besides what they have gained from their sex merchandise.

She is always asking for one financial favour or another.
So if she does not get it from John, she will move on to Tom and if Tom cannot give her what she wants, she will turn to Bayo and if Bayo is not willing to give her, she will try Tolu. To her, romance is like a game of Bullshit. She will play all her cards.
She has to lie to John that she does not have a boyfriend, to win his sympathy and curry his favour, because she believes that if she admits that she has a boyfriend, John will no longer be willing to give her what she is asking for in cash or kind.

Her demands or insecurities lead her into dating and mating different men in her vicious circle of promiscuity.

Many relationships and marriages are the products of lies.
That is why infidelity is rampant, because most of the couples lied to lure their partners into relationship and marriage.

Most unscruplous girls and women end up the most promiscuous.

They are shameless, so they are careless and reckless until their lies are exposed in broad daylight.

The most desperate liars will tell more lies to cover their previous lies.

I find it shocking how Bullshitting is so common in the Nigerian society.

The following musical video by Nelly Furtado and Timbaland is for Miss. Promiscuous.

Sade Adeniran's "Imagine This" Makes Final List for the Commonwealth Writers Prize

Sade Adeniran's first novel "Imagine This" has been shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book Award for Africa.

I pray she wins the highly coveted prize, because she deserves the success she has sacrificed so much for, intellectually, physically and financially.

She began writing the book in 1998 and it took her five years to complete it. She gave her family and friends to read it first before she sent it to fifteen agents and about twenty publishers and none of them accepted to publish it. She kept the novel under her bed until she made up her mind to pursue her great dream. Sade quit her job as a marketing executive for a telecom company and went to the Spanish Writers Retreat for a month to do nothing else but write. It was at the retreat that she decided to take the leap of faith and self-publish her novel.
“In a sense I approached it as a creative process, not a business enterprise,” Sade said.
She paid £100 for the ISBN and found a good printer at the London Book Fair. She spent over £2,000 to print 1,100 copies and started distributing the copies and giving it to Amazon.co.uk to sell more copies.

Sade should have given her first novel a better title, and prevent the confusion of the novel sharing the same title with other books like Julia Baird's Imagine This and Vickie M. Stringer's Imagine This.

Reviewers have praised "Imagine This" and I hope the novel wins the prize.


I wish her all the best.

US: Judge Sets Bail At $275000 For American Mom Jailed After Trip To Nigeria

US: Judge Sets Bail At $275000 For American Mom Jailed After Trip To Nigeria

A judge Wednesday set bail at $275000 for a mother accused of abandoning her children to go to Nigeria to marry a man she'd never met in Nigeria.

Read more.

When I read the story, I simply recalled my article Why Do Fools Still Fall in Love?.

Why do fools still fall in love?

She must be a fool for love to have abandoned her 1-year-old baby and five other young children for a useless romantic trip to Nigeria to marry a Nigerian con man she had only met online. Oprah Winfrey would have called her another American “mugu” fooled by another Nigerian Internet scammer to abandon her six children in the US in a foolish quest for love in Nigeria.

Why do fools still fall in love?

Star Watch: Lovelyn Loves the Big Picture

This lovely young Nigerian actress, LovelynChrist has her beautiful brown eyes on the big picture of the silver screen.



She played her first role in a Nigerian movie, Jewel of the Kingdom directed by Holy Steve in 2006.
She wants Nollywood to move on to the higher ground of the film industry like Bollywood and compete with Hollywood.

She is presently on location on Bonny Island in Nigeria.

"We can make it!" Lovelyn said.



She loves sports and is very good in swimming, soccer, volleyball, body building and track and field. She is also a good dancer.


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