Things Get Funnier

A taboo-boy flees his village through an unusual ford to avoid being stoned to death. He amasses a weighty size of wealth and bribes his way back home. And just when mortals seem to have unduly forgiven and forgotten the law he broke, the gods break his head with a concrete on his coronation eve, leaving everyone to marvel at how skillfully gods can handle funny situations their own way.

Third child of five, Okwudiri Gabriel Job was born in the ultimate decade of the twentieth century, to Ohaozara natives, Ebonyi State. He studied Medical Rehabilitation for three years at University of Nigeria Nsukka, where he started manuscripting. His manuscript The Masses on Ashes was a finalist for the inaugural James Currey Prize for African Literature, in 2021. Okwudiri was Dean of Studies, Midlands International Schools Ohiya, where he taught Physics and Mathematics until September 2022. A theologian and trained pastor, too, he currently leads God’s flock at Behold He Cometh Pentecostal Church International, in a local congregation capacity though.