Memoir

Betrayal : Episode 1 ( Chapter 1)

Narrated by T.A Ronald · 12:27

The Boy Who Dreamed Beyond the Village "Some people spend their lives running away from strangers. I spent mine trying to escape the betrayal of my own blood. My name is Okoli, and according to everyone in my village... I died many years ago. But before I tell you how my family buried a man who was still breathing, let me take you back to where it all began." I was born in Umuokwara, a quiet Igbo village in southeastern Nigeria, where the first crow of the rooster was louder than any alarm clock and where every child learned the value of hard work before they learned how to write their own name. My father, Pa Chinedu Okafor, was a respected palm wine tapper. He was not rich, but he was known for something money could never buy—his integrity. People traveled from neighboring villages just to drink his fresh palm wine and listen to his stories beneath the giant udala tree that stood proudly in front of our compound. My mother, Mama Ngozi, sold vegetables in the village market. Together they raised six children......