Motion: A Jenta Story

by Lengdung Tungchamma

Overview

A typical Jenta story is one of limited vision. The stereotype is that a person born in Jenta—a slum area of Jos, Nigeria—is stuck in poverty and drifts naturally to vice, crime, and gang activity, mainly because they lack vision for anything better. The saying has always been, "Nothing good can come from Jenta."

But one young man and several friends started a grassroots public library aiming to #ChangeTheNarrative of their community, and they have succeeded. Now, through books, programs, and community involvement, young people in Jenta can access a higher vision for their lives.

Lengdung Tungchamma tells his story of being born in Jenta and growing up amid poverty, terrible government dysfunction, and terrifying religious violence. He tells how, despite himself, God intervened in ways that set Lengdung in motion, away from stagnation in a survival mentality, and toward vitality by blessing others through the Jenta Reads Community Library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781961568716
Publisher:	Walking Together Press
Publication date:	07/01/2025
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Lengdung Tungchamma is the co-founder of the Jenta Reads Community Initiative, which uses books to change the narrative of a slum community in Jos, Nigeria. He is a computer programmer who focuses on Data Science, Digital Marketing, and Web Development. In his free time, he reads everything available to him.

A frequent public speaker, Lengdung loves to inspire people to read books. He is an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center West Africa in Ghana, the African Presidential Leadership Program in Egypt, and the Kectil Leadership Program in Atlanta.

He is married to the sweetest woman in the world and lives in the best place in the world, Jenta.