BLOOD and KIN
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my heart beats like the wings of an evil bird as i wait for the cains to make time blurred my back is a runway where welts land darkend with scars scornfully timed my body shivers like a chicken shamed with rain my ears hurt from the grating of hate and pain i'm the scream that stalks the guilty in the dead of night i'm the blood that flows without a fight i'm the life behind a wall that spies at life i'm life behind that wall that begs a knife now who is going to crown me john?
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About the Book
Blood and kin is about life about love about hate about pain about black about white. Then it goes on to tell about the darkness in the black and the bleakness in the white. Blood and Kin is about women about men about sex about weakness about naiviety about virginity and promiscuity. its about sin about the blessings of the gods in heaven and the ones on earth. About finger nails and daggaers that fail, about death and dying and crys for life a whiff of life. Blood and Kin is about living or leaving
About the Author
To tell ivori's story by stating his college qualification or journalistic proffesion would be totally misleading a reader about the book they are about to read or have read. The profile story of the man inside the author that guided the pen started not in the walls of ahmadu bello university where he studied sociollgy or in the letters of his institutte of journallism's HND certificate. the inspiration or education for blood and kin started years ago at age 15, in the dead of the night. ivori was kidnapped from his grandmums hut by dogmatic ancestors who were desperate to enough to use the only chance they saw to initiate the city kid into the ritualistic practice of the divination god: IFA.Until this day he has spoken to no one about that weird séance. But we continue to listen to his words and read his books to peep into the "future" as he terms his artistic works and spirituallistic experience.