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| LULU ELECTRONIC VERSION(2011): US$7.99 |
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| COMMENTS ‘A masterly work of profound expression.’ Spectrum Books, Ring Road, Ibadan. NIGERIA ‘This book has been keeping me up past my bedtime; some pages I laugh out loud, and some pages I cry. It is a great read and I recommend it to everyone.’ Maxine Taylor, San Antonio. TX USA ‘This interesting book about growing up with sickle cell anaemia in western Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s ... sets out beautifully the political turmoil through the eyes of Ola as he approaches adulthood.’ Professor Elizabeth Anionwu Thames Valley University UK |
| Title: Menace In My sickle cell anaemia ISBN/Author: 0 141205017-0/Ola Tamedu Description: Author relates growing up in a well-to-do polygamous family in West Africa and highlights the difficulties of life under the spell of an incurable blood disorder Now available as Ebook for $7.99 USD Print & Electronic versions Available at: LULU and other online stores |
| By the time I was six, seven and ten years of age, the idea of life as one general drama of pain had been etched indelible in my consciousness.' 'bone pain ... more than all others combined, made me sometimes to rue the day I took my first breath, and wish that I had not been born' 'I reflected that the illness I was afflicted with had no respect for time or place and no sense of decorum.' |
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