Publisher's Synopsis
This is a historical epic based on the oral history, folk tales and lore of AroChukwu. The hero, a young noble from the land of AroChukwu, journeyed to Ebeinu at the entreaty of the king of Ebeinu to the king of AroChukwu for assistance. AroChukwu had evolved as a foremost emergent civilization - the home of the first indigenous writing in West Africa, the center of trade and commerce, learning, religious pilgrimage, oracular divination and judicial arbitration East of the Niger Area and beyond. Chima went to Ebeinu where he wrought many perplexing superhuman feats, and helped the Ebeinu king, Oba Orhamenye tame the belligerent princes of the erstwhile Ogiso dynasty. Chima, at the persuasion of the Oba, married the princess, the only child of the Oba, and they sired Iweka, the successor to the Ebeinu throne after Oba Orhamenye. His lineage still hold sway in that realm. Chima left Ebeinu at the accomplishment of his assignment there. intent on going back home to AroChukwu. However, while he was leaving, more than half of the citizens of Ebeinu accompanied him out of ebeinu in a wave that could be regarded as a major exodus. Chima's sons established the component towns and communities of the sprawling UmuezeChima clan West of the Niger area. He also became the first monarch of Onicha, that great city by the River Niger.
