Idaamu Omoribiwon… Metaphor For Confronting Societal Challenges

The book has eight chapters and written in Yoruba Language. The book reflects various Yoruba cultural beliefs and practices, ranging from traditional marriage, naming ceremony to polygamy.

The narrative dwells on the life of a woman named Omoribiwon, unravelling her business, her marital and family life among others. Omoribiwon was plagued by series of problems from her early life. From age 13 she sets out to work as a housemaid in order to elk out a living. She was later trained as a tailor and from that her life took a different turn with noticeable improvement in her quality of life. However, somewhere along the line, her love relationship went awry with the fiancé jilting her on the account of her dogged refusal to get pregnant before marriage.

Omoribiwon later became the third wife of Alabi Adetunji and the union was blessed with five kids. But her first child who was a son suffered kidney damage necessitating an immediate kidney transplant to keep him alive. But no one among the family member was ready to donate a kidney to him however the mother volunteered one of hers. The transplant was successful and things returned to normal for the son and herself, including the other members of her family, however, temporarily, as exactly a year after the son suffered a relapsed following a brief illness. In the process, Adeola, Omoribiwon first child died.

Omoribiwon was full of grief but later consoled herself. She bounces back and continues to live her life in good health and sound mind.

Some of the lessons to be drawn from the book include the power of connection, perseverance, sacrificial life and truthfulness as well as dedicated to family life, children and contentment with one’s state in life.

The book is written by Michael Akande, a lecturer at Emmanuel Alayande College of Education in Oyo town, Oyo State and it is first novel publication but he has over the years published a number of textbooks for use by students.

The publishing house is Mestak Publishers Lagos while the forward to the book was written by an author emeritus, Chief Oladejo Okediji, the author of Rere run.