Days In Quarantine

By Sunday Wura Best

Days In Quarantine is a vivid painting of the condition of an average African during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Grouped into four categories namely; Coronavirus Pandemic, Black Lives Matter, For Persons and Miscellaneous; it covers a global timeline of the days spent in Quarantine...
A must read for anyone seeking the to dip into the African experience during the pandemic

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunday Wura Best
• Release date: Sep 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005140779

Sunday Wura Best

Sunday Wura Best is an author and a poet with several satirical and aesthetic lines. His poetry voyage kick-started in 2016 with his poem Tee and since then, he has been affecting lives locally and internationally with his poems.Wura envisages a time when the unparalleled chart between the rich and poor will be totally shredded to oneness and this has been the main theme of his poems over the years. A poet, an essayist and an author, he pursues a life void of injustice and bias for the common man through his writings.He is currently working on Song of the Black Bird, a collection of elegies specially dedicated to his mentor and father, Ogbo Mmuen Kpagane (of blessed memory).Born in 1999, he hails from Ogoni, Rivers State, Nigeria and Days in Quarantine is his first anthology

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INTRODUCTION

It has always been common among great men and women to pick prospects from the hardest situations in their lives. History is clouded with great minds who saw a challenging situation as a chance, not just to excel but to affect their world positively and worked in accordance with it.

Coronavirus has, in every sphere, proven to be the most challenging event to have hit the world in the past half century. It has axed the economic arms of great nations, brought the operations of great businesses to a halt, built bridges between student and schools and rendered the poor more depressed. Hunger level is increasing on daily basis; those choked by hunger are endless. Professional medicals are struck by confusion and even to the religs it seems like the structural base of divination is weakened at the bottom. The list is endless.

However, while the edged fangs of this pandemic go about thrusting through the axis of world economies, creating more tombstones in the graveyard and setting a fog at the visionary site of many, some have taken it rather as a dare to step on to their peaks.

We see many creative videos popping out every day, many educative firms have sprouted to help curtail the spread of the virus and privately produced facemasks have packed the markets. These, to name a few, are the list of those who have thumped on a global challenge to both affect people’s lives and to survive.

Just as the endless list of innovative outputs in every corners of the world today, Days in Quarantine stands as a token of sacrifice both to educate and affect people’s lives, globally. Filed with verses of my personal experiences during this pandemic, it is aimed at daubing the state of the average Nigeria and African generally, in a time like this.

Therefore, this book is not just a collection of poems written during the Coronavirus pandemic but also the proof of a challenge stepped on to affect people’s lives.

Amidst trials, adversity and patience, I present Days In Quarantine to anyone who has longed to comprehend the profiles of this pandemic, from a young African poet’s view.

Sunday Wura Best

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Monday, 7th Sept, 2020

"The poor are more likely to be compliant as they can be easily intimidated by the coercive instruments of state. They only become defiant when driven to the wall by hunger. Not so the elite who live to subvert the system."

-The Nation Newspapers (15th April, 2020)

Coronavirus Diaries

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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

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The tragedy of today shall soon desert the stage

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