An Uncommon Poet From A Common World

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Chidi E.O.Ezeobi
An Uncommon Poet From A Common World
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Chidi Ezeobi was
born in Nigeria. He has completed his early
education at Augata High School in Anambra State,
Nigeria. He was fond of writing from the
beginning. After spending a great section of his
life in Nigeria, he migrated to the United States
in 1996 . Later, he went on to earn his AAS in
Business Administration at Kingsborough Community
College, New York. Apart from it, he has also
completed his BSC in Professional Law at Medgar
Evers College in New York. Excellence was always
a standard to measure his work. Throughout his
career, he learned the nuances of writing. Sooner
after learning every detail and observing what
and what not to see, a great writer was ready to
serve the world.
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Chidi E.O. Ezeobi has written following books

• The Forgotten Princess and The Shark
• Sledgehammer Sentence
• Remind the World Poems from Prison
• UDI and The Animals

Every book of his beautifully depicts a different
point of view. He firmly believes that there are
different angles to see the world and understand
something new. Being a writer, he feels blessed
to see the world in a different way. Thoughts
like these help him to think differently, and
characteristics like these make him different
from others.
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• He has many characteristics that make Chidi
  Ezeobi different. He is a creative writer who has
  come with deep and different messages through his
  books. His vision of life is different from
  others. His story describes that to understand
  the world better, one can view situations from
  different angles.   

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The Forgotten Princess and The Shark
The remarkable point about the story is that the
writer has distinctively focused on every tiny
detail. It reflects the feeling of stubbornness,
separation, and love. Its a story of a princess
who was born to a poor family in the land of Ulom
Kingdom and her birth was prophetic. The king of
that land was told by his wise-men, that she will
rule his kingdom and will become the successor.
The king thought the princess to be his daughter.
However, year after year eleven male children
were born to him and his queen in the hope of a
daughter. When the twelfth male child was born,
the king asked his wise-men, what went wrong? Why
the princess has not taken birth as yet? All of
them advised the king to marry again and assured
him that he will get a daughter from his second
wife.
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• The king married again, but again he had 12 male
  children with his second queen. King became
  agitated and thought that his wise men are
  deceiving him and so he decided to kill them.
  After killing all the wise-men, seven wise-women
  came to his land with seven gifts from a far
  country. They told the king that the princess has
  taken birth in the land of Ulom and they saw her
  from afar. After knowing about the birth of the
  princess who wasnt his daughter, the king was
  angry, confused, and disturbed. He asked those
  seven wise-women to bring the princess to him as
  soon as they find her. At the behest of the king,
  seven wise-women left the land of Ulom with seven
  gifts to find the princess but never returned.
  When the king realized wise-women had gone back
  to their land and will never return, he became
  furious and gave the order to kill all the
  newborn girl babies in the kingdom. A poor
  family, where the princess was actually born got
  distressed. To save the princess, her parents
  threw her into the river. There, she was saved by
  the shark that raised her in the ocean.

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