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Tuesday, 29 September 2015

The life and times of Sunday Eyiboh: Notes of a native son

Late Elder Sunday EdohoUqua Eyiboh
BY  OSONDU  AHIRIKA

As I am always given to do, I find very compelling need to make the novel, Notes of a Native Son by American writer, James Baldwin, the anecdote to anchor this piece on Late Elder Sunday Edohouqua Eyiboh. The reason is simple. The underlying biographical script by Rt. Hon. Eseme  Eyiboh, like James Baldwin’s essays  comprised in his Notes of a Native Son, are essentially, memoirs, reflecting with incisive and precise illumination, his attestation about his father Late Elder Sunday EdohoUqua Eyiboh.
Looking upon  his father on his deathbed, Baldwin undertook an unbiased interrogation of his father’s life, his relationship with his wife and children, his relatives, the African American community and to a larger point the white American society.