Spirit of Language That Held Us

Spirit of Language That Held Us is a luminous, interwoven narrative of remembrance, heritage, and the sacred role of language in holding communities together.

In this poignant novel, Jack Ndem Oduu transports readers to the Ogoni homeland of Nigeria's Niger Delta, where the silence of an abandoned village calls to a boy named keenye booh, his name meaning "to remember" or "to return." Guided by ancestral echoes and a destiny rooted in his very name, he discovers an elder who has kept a solit...