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    The Kingmaker and Other Stories and Selected Poems
    The Kingmaker and Other Stories and Selected Poems
    The Kingmaker and Other Stories and Selected Poems
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    The Kingmaker and Other Stories and Selected Poems

    By Olawale Olayemi

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    This a collection of short stories and poems with an African flavor but with a universal appeal that anyone can relate with. It is about love, our relationship with higher powers and life in general. It is a journey into a fictional world and also into the world within us and is sure to make the reader look inwards and think about why we do the things we do.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlawale Olayemi
    Release dateDec 10, 2016
    ISBN9781370261772
    The Kingmaker and Other Stories and Selected Poems
    Author

    Olawale Olayemi

    I'm an engineer who has a passion for writing and hopes to one day forget all about engineering and focus on writing stories

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