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The Oath of the Land: A Novel of Faith and Ancestral Tradition in an Igbo Village: A Pastoral Memoir
Igbo, C. L. (Autor)
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The Oath of the Land: A Novel of Faith and Ancestral Tradition in an Igbo Village: A Pastoral Memoir - Igbo, C. L.
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Kneel, and betray your God. Refuse, and lose your people.In the village of Umuola, a string of unexplained thefts has done more than empty a few granaries — it has reawakened a custom the village swore they'd never need again: the Oath of Ala. Every adult must kneel at the pit and eat the kola nut before the earth goddess, or be named guilty by their silence. Every adult. Except the ones for whom kneeling isn't tradition — it's treason against everything they've built their life on. Emenike Okafor has spent years teaching his community the Ten Commandments. Now the community is asking him to break the first one, in front of the very people he taught it to. There is no quiet way out. Refuse the oath, and his family may lose the only home they've ever known. Take it, and he becomes a stranger to himself. **The Oath of the Land** is not a story about who stole from the village. It's a story about what a man is willing to lose to keep his soul intact — and whether faith that costs you nothing was ever really faith at all. Written by C. L. Igbo and narrated by Father Cyprian Nwafor, the priest who walked beside Emenike through the ordeal, this is literary fiction with the pulse of a memoir — steeped in the rhythms of Igbo village life, and unflinching about the price of conviction. If you've ever had to choose between peace with your people and peace with your God, Emenike's choice is yours too. Read it in one sitting. You won't see the ending coming — and you won't forget it after. Get your copy of The Oath of the Land today.
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