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Mogbolahan Koya-Oyagbola
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- Bavaria, Munich
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- Hometown:
- Lagos State
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- Munich
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- Writer
- Bookclub you belong to (include bookclub name & state):
- None. Not many for English speakers in Munich.
- Have You "Freed Your Inner Book" Yet?
- Yes
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- The name is Koya-Oyagbola, Mogbolahan Koya-Oyagbola. I'm British/Nigerian and an addict. I developed the habit quite early on. Mum urged me to try it. She said it would be good for me and I listened. I looked at the colours, sniffed at it and was hooked. At first I only did it in the daytime but pretty soon I also did it at night. Sometimes I couldn’t sleep as I built up my stash – Homer, Defoe, Stevenson, Dickens, Shakespeare. Mum had turned me into a book addict. If you came to our house you’d often find me, my mum and all three of my brothers in the same room, caught up in the book addict’s hush.
Dad’s law books made him immune. In no time at all I was hanging on street corners pushing Steinbeck, Marquez, Roth, Achebe. “Try this one,” I’d say, “and if it makes you euphoric, control your reading high and don’t crack the spine”. I had gone from book addict to book pusher. Mum cheered on, supplying pure uncut encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauruses.
At 14 I started to manufacture my own. I gave up on the pursuit of impressive sounding jobs. I’m not a doctor, not a lawyer or engineer in spite of my almost encyclopaedic knowledge. Instead I’m a student of languages and an English language teacher. I’m the worst kind of book addict. I also manufacture my own my stuff. One of them is now available on amazon.com. It’s a highly addictive collection of five poems and 14 short stories called, Some White English Women I’ve Almost Known. It’s one step away from thesaurus – addictive, pure uncut. Go to amazon.com to get yours. But a word of caution - it might give you a reading high which makes you crack the spine. Caveat emptor! You’ve been warned.
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Escape From Shaolin
Synopsis, by Tony Elliott
When thirteen year old Caz is transplanted from Brooklyn to the isolated and forgotton borough of Staten Island, New York he is shocked by the sudden attack on his neighborhood by Rosebankers, white boys who hop out of cars and smash the car windows in front of his building with baseball bats. Caz streetfights the white boys by day and robs them at night, his payback for slavery and white oppression. It’s not only whites he has to navigate though, living in the savage Park Hill and Stapleton projects. Surrounded by drugs, violence and despair Caz finds a way to graduate high school three days before being sentenced to prison for his robberies. He joins a black nationalists group called the white robes who believe that whites are devils but he soon questions the teachings and becomes an enemy Scar, a sadistic convict doing life in prison who doesn't want Caz to make it out. Starting in the late seventies, Escape From Shaolin takes us through the eighties, nineties and to the new millineum with touching, tense and action packed scenes that follow a boy determined to beat the odds while struggling to become a man .
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