‘Dying Voices of Gongs’, A New Fictional Novel From The Niger Delta

A journalist, Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo, the author of ; Dying Voices of Gongs’ novel,  has gained several years of experience practicing in the Niger Delta and has undertaken to write this  book  to recast the pictures he had seen in the course of his journalism duty, to tell a story.  Of the daily agony experienced by a people who feel neglected and isolated from the benefits, the oil and gas business has held forth, without a reasonable investment and plough back of the gains, into improving welfare for them. Isitima, the protagonist, is caught in the mix of  the several interests, craving for a share of the oil resource.He, being an interested party tries to persuade  the collection of militant group leaders to resist the urge to burst oil pipelines, in their struggle to save the environment. He scavenges for every useful forum to elicit international and local support for prompt intervention. But the Ribad Province Authority  considers him, the mastermind of the several insurgencies that has  threatens the peace and seeks him with the law. He keeps running into hiding, away from the authority and some militant leaders, who see him as a bigger threat to their interest.  The more he implores,the more they  pushed their way through into illegal oil bunkering and arms struggles to create jobs for themselves as a way of breaking  the pains, lack of meaningful employment  had caused them. Can Isitima achieve any result?

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