This is a book of nonfiction. It is a true life story of an African woman living in the diaspora with her husband. Her husband had run into problems. Instead of helping him out, her parents pressured her to divorce him. She refused, insisting that it was against her faith to do so. Specifically, the book is informed by the unpleasant news reports about the frequency of marriage breakdowns among the African families living in the diaspora. Many marriages contracted back home have always hit the rock and, in most cases, led to either violence or forceful dissolution in the diaspora. So, this book is written to highlight one of the real causes of the problem. Many African men who live in the diaspora do not want to marry women in the diaspora. They prefer to go to their countries to find their wives from their kith and kin, than marry the diaspora women who, they consider 'too wayward' and lack of respect for their husbands.
These men, when they come home, they go to the remote areas to get spouses, then they take them to their base abroad (in most cases the United States, Canada and Europe) and train them to become professional health workers, especially the nursing profession. After the training and securing good jobs in the health sector, these women begin to 'misbehave'. They begin to work against their husbands, who brought them to the diaspora and trained them to become useful to their immediate families and society. In most cases, these women, invite their mothers and other relatives to their base without the consents of their husbands. The husbands become slaves in their own houses. Many African ladies in the diaspora have lost their lives on account of this behaviour.
The book illustrates with the news reports about what happens in the homes of Nigerians, who live abroad. The reports say that many Nigerian women living abroad with their husbands are either shot dead or clobbered to death by their enraged husbands, who can no longer bear humiliation by their spouses. Many of these husbands are, now, languishing in jails abroad. But these reports do not reveal the other side of the story. They fail to report that there are also good women, who believe strongly in the sanctity of marriage; women who are ready to stand by their husbands in the thick and thin till death separates them.
So, this book tries to show that not all women are ungrateful to their husbands' good gestures. Nkiruka is one of these women, who value the sanctity of the marriage institution and are determined to keep it irrespective of challenges. She sees marriage as for better for worse until death separates her and the man. Her husband brought her to the United States and trained her to qualify as a nurse. Thereafter, she conceived and gave birth to a set of twins. Two boys. Later she had another baby boy. Her husband got involved in hard drug and was confined to various rehabilitation centers for a longer period of time. Her mother, who came from Nigeria to help her in taking care of the babies aligned with her father in Nigeria and they began to pressure her to divorce her husband. Nkiruka refused to do so because she believes in the institution of marriage. She ignored her parents to save her marriage. She also rescued him from suicide. Note that Nkiruka, Bankole, and other names in this book are not real. But Pastor Dickson Anyanwu and Pastor EA Adeboye are real names. Their roles in this book are reflections of their real life activities. They are servants of God, who have really touched many lives, and they are still working for God. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Evangel Pentecostal Church (EPC) mentioned in this book are real. These Churches and many others are working very hard to succour the lives of people both in Nigeria and other parts of the world. Agwa, Ogbaku and other communities mentioned in this book are real. So also is Imo State University.