Author Ngozi ACHEBE “Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter” Book Tour Houston & Sugarland , Texas.

Feb. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- The tour is way to promote Ngozi Achebe’s new book, “Oneado: The Blacksmiths Daughter,” which explores the story of the main character in the book, Onaedo, an Igbo girl, the daughter of a renowned blacksmith, the stories are told beautifully, in a way that readers are taken through time to a place in a tiny sugar plantation island off the coast of West Africa and pulls a curtain back to reveal the life of the colonialists in the 16th century. The city tour is also an opportunity to help raise awareness and insight about slavery in the 16th century.Ngozi Achebe is a doctor, speaker, and author, Dr. Ngozi also impacts thousands of avid readers, teachers and students through her work.

Her uncle is Chinua Achebe, author, Professor at Brown University, and critic, best known for his book Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. She currently lives in Olympia, Washington and is a practicing physician.
Her early unpublished writings were about the darkness of war and survival having been one of the children that lived through the Biafran war - a catastrophic event that engulfed 1960’s Nigeria and a potent definer of many childhood memories. She told other stories – happier ones of children that explored moonlit roads under overhead pewter skies and silver dusted trees and fascinating African nights!

The Houston book tour starts on February 16, 2011 and includes a book signing at the Book Nook, book reading at University of Houston and Texas Southern University,Downtown Arts Gallery, a meet and greet at ZanzibarHouston, TV appearances and radio interviews. For more information about Ngozi Achebe, please visit www.ngoziachebe.com . For appearances,event media releases and inquiries can be made to Tina Ike via email at info@tinaike.com or by calling 832.390.7473.


About Oneado: The Blacksmiths Daughter
In her latest book, Oneado: The Blacksmiths Daughter (MANDAC-GOLDBERG; March 11, 2010; $15.07; Paperback), Maxine, a modern American woman who is half white and half African, comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the sixteenth century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. She tries to write a book about it.  She uses elements of the discovered diaries in her book and also information she has discovered herself based on ancient stories retold to her by a collaborator.  The main character in her book, Onaedo, is a young woman from Igboland in West Africa who starts her life in an idyllic town in the heart of West Africa, with her own trials and tribulations as a young, independent minded girl growing up in a traditional society. As she comes of age, she finds herself in the middle of the incendiary events at the beginning of the African slave trade that change the course of history. There are poignantly drawn sharp storylines and an unforgettable cast of characters and villains as the story moves to Sao Tome, a tiny sugar plantation island off the coast of West Africa and pulls a curtain back to reveal the life of the colonialists in the 16th century where there are twists and unexpected turns from beginning to end.

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