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    Where Is the Father?: A Story of Struggle, Faith and Victory
    Where Is the Father?: A Story of Struggle, Faith and Victory
    Where Is the Father?: A Story of Struggle, Faith and Victory
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    Where Is the Father?: A Story of Struggle, Faith and Victory

    By A. I. Abana

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                              Where is the Father?
    An exhilarating story of a man born into struggle... slogging it out in a time and place where the deadliest terrorist group in the world rained pogrom. A slum-born, poverty-stricken youngster fighting his way against all odds from the trenches of one of the poorest, squalor suburbs in the world to the stardom of a global celebrity ... Enter the life of Eby Razi.
    How did he do it?... How did he endure thirty-four years of inhumanity, cheating death this so many times? How did he go from being a homeless pauper to a billionaire in ten days!?
    This book was inspired by a true life story; it was written to inspire you and to convict you into a sober reflection. Let the story speak to you ... What is impossible for men is not impossible with God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLexis Tuco
    Release dateDec 14, 2018
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      Where Is the Father? - A. I. Abana

      WHERE IS THE

      FATHER?

      A Story of Struggle, Faith and Victory

      BY

      A. I. ABANA

      This book is a work of fiction; its moral however, is real and beneficial. References to authorities, names of persons, places and events were done in good faith, are coincidental and should not be misconstrued. All scripture quotations in this book are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      Text copyright © 2017 by A. I. Abana

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author.

      Published by Lexis Tuco,

      Saltimari.

      For inquiries contact neroabana@gmail.com

      Cover design by Lexy Flexy

      Designed by Ali Alex

      Edited by Alico Sam

      To all Saints

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      What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them—Mark 11:24

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      About the Author

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      THE BRINK

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      am! The sound went off, what is that? asked Eby, who was rattled to attention as he made ready to eat the evening meal, long overdue and cooked late. The Majiris! retorted his brother Minu who had stormed the house in a frenzy just seconds earlier frantically looking for a place to hide, cold sweat running down his face and dark brown eyes popping out in dread.

      Minu was whiling the evening away in Geria’s northeastern city of Maidas. He was out in the neighborhood with friends, an outing which came to an abrupt end as the friends beheld a tumultuous mob approaching, armed with sticks, machetes, and stones, many of whom were deranged with fury. Menacingly hastening toward the group of friends who made a perfect target by the way they sat.

      The Majiris were a group of overzealous disciples adhering to the Galo religion ubiquitous in that clime. They held the belief that lunar eclipses were the result of sins committed by unbelievers and as such, anytime an eclipse occurred, they would set out in armed bands to mete out the justice due unbelievers; burning brothels, beer joints and attacking the private residences of all they consider unrighteous. Eby’s street was known to the local Majiri council as one mostly occupied by infidels and has, therefore, a case to answer. As the moon slowly turned red, the Majiris fanned out in large groups, armed to the teeth with a resolve to unleash pogrom.

      Having bolted their door, Minu and other members of Eby’s family could not but hope for an unusual divine intervention as wrathful sounds and shouts of kill them all!, burn the infidels! emanating from the throng outside continued to rise.

      The gate was mercilessly pounded from without in an attempt by the armed crowd to break in. Since the brick fences surrounding the house were barbed, the gate which was made of a thin sheet of metallic alloy seemed the most convenient way in for the mob whose pedigree was to leave behind a trail of sorrows, tears, and blood when they strike.

      As the pounding continued, Eby’s mind raced helter-skelter. Should he call the local police? Alas, the local telecoms masts and cellular base stations have all been shut down in the carnage. Besides, law enforcement privy to the events that unfold at eclipses have decided to steer clear of target neighborhoods as previous attempts to secure such had cost them the lives of more men, vehicles, and equipment than not. Coupled with the fact that many senior officers in the local police sympathize with and give tacit acknowledgment to the belief system of the Majiris, calling the police was no option.

      Eby being the eldest of five siblings was left pondering what course of action to take. Eby’s aged mother, who having eaten dinner, had since locked herself up in the bedroom closet together with his younger sister Rabi, awaiting what may come. His younger brothers, Nasco and Churus including Minu, hearing the ominous roars coursing the streets have since entered and tucked away with the goats in the dark and poorly lit barn, being an unlikely place for an attacker to look in case the house gate was breached.

      Eby was at the crossroads, this was a brief period of time he came home from a long absence at the university in the distant city of Layo, where he had been studying. He had graduated by now and was planning on going for the one-year mandatory service program government had set in place for all graduates of its accredited universities. The service year was a prerequisite for employment and Eby had to go. In the interim, he decided to visit home for the few weeks he would have to wait before traveling.

      The quiet he had hoped for was obviously not unfolding as he thought it. In this quagmire of a situation, one thing was unmistakable, the absence of Eby’s father. Eby’s father was nowhere to be found, having noted what possible carnage could unfold and the fact that he felt tied to a wife in a marriage he never was happy about, decided to hole up at a friend’s, in a far more secure end of town, a suburb of the city.

      The man had planned on getting back only when the dust had settled and the insurrection had run its course. Cash-strapped and fearful for his life, he had envisioned the wife and children a lot he can’t conveniently escape with, he thought it best to be nimble in maneuver.

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      by was born and bred in the same city he

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