Omeke Deepens Human Purpose, Potential With Middlebelt of Enlightenment
IT is not every time you see the kind of elegance and style that this writer has deployed in a work that is a faction, or better still memoir. To Joshua Omeke, writing has a life of his own and can choose its path. He has tried to bring the spiritual to deepen the narrative.
The Middle Belt of Enlightenment is a non- fiction memoir that discusses the author’s experience of parenting while growing up in his community and the susceptible knowledge he had come to acquire over time. The 61- page book is an endorsement of Joshua Omeke as a writer, and poet. Born in Lagos, he is a forcible voice against the wiles of neocolonial entanglements. In the Middle Belt of Enlightenment, Omeke shares his personal upbringing and relates it to how up- and- coming or already parents can benefit with how he was brought up and how the upbringing of other people’s children kept clashing with the lessons from his parents until he surrendered to the home training he was receiving and how it has helped him stand out from the crowd.
Not only does Omeke share his experiences, but he also relates them to facts stated by other authors to prove it is not just his upbringing that makes his statement a valid fact but other writers shared similar experiences. This is why they are successful. The author Performs well in his delivery and uses the first person pronoun but the first chapter is really not necessary to prove his point. The first chapter would have given a wrong impression because he discusses on the formulation of babies and progresses into other aspect like counseling and how parents allow their indifferences to bring up children. He should have skipped the formulation of babies and started with the indifferences this way the work engages from the onset.
In each chapter, the author discloses severe techniques that can advance parenting. And also, reveals his ideology that has helped others develop skills that could advance their approach towards parenting, nurturing mentees and personal development. It is true some may not want to be parents, but the knowledge in this memoir is highly recommended. The author is to be applauded for sticking to the first person pronoun across the memoir and use of metaphors, quotes, and narrative approach in telling his experiences.
First and foremost, enlightenment stresses the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular that awareness, which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth:
Even though the work has no political undertone, which might inspire conflict of interest in the title the author had chosen, he sort of delve into this subject with a different sense and approach.
For clarity sake he also does so with simple and lucid language. The author emphasises reason and individualism rather than tradition. The author awakens the reader’s sense of imagination as part of quest for enlightenment. That is why in reproduction. He espouse the opinion that sex is not just coitus but a wave of connection or chains of energy that could spark a soul and keep it on fire until death do them part.
Ideas are the ejaculated through thoughts the mind must capture to reproduce the kind of future everybody desires through enlightenment. The author says that people fail because they are going through manuscripts of past experiences, and therefore, healing can begin from anywhere, from pages of books, musical notes and opportunities and so on.
The book contains 12 chapters with a special focus on leading a fruitful and fulfilling life through enlightenment. Enlightenment is the fuel of possibilities, the adrenaline for impact and the rocket for an enduring legacy.
Omeke believes children ( seeds) should be allowed the freedom to make choices that pertain to their lives. He sees parenting as a journey of selfdiscovery where the child and his parents are always discovering themselves through their constant interaction. He asserts that a child must enjoy some level of exposure to the outside world to garner sufficient
confidence to conquer his fears and embrace the totality of his destiny.
In Omeke’s world, the Northern and Southern spheres of thought must find a place where transition is possible, that is from the point you are to where you are supposed to be. Showing the author has buried his head in resources of enlightenment in which becomes the central zone or the linkage between who you used to be and who you ought to be as the author narrative tells.
The greater one becomes enlightened, the higher one could transverse the altitude of life, thereby sustaining the right attitude to remain atop. But the author had documented this from the perspective of a general approach rather than dissecting according to age groups because of brain developments and exposure in terms of experiences.
In chapter one, the author discusses the formulation of babies and progresses into other aspect like counseling and why parents should not allow their indifferences to bring up children.