The Secret of the Dark Tower

By Jeanne Makwamba

Ten-year-old Omana Feza moves from D.R. Congo to the United States of America. After spending the summer with her 14-year-old cousin, Nzeba Feza, she begins school in America. There, she has a lovely teacher, Ms. Mayemba, and makes friends with three wonderful girls, Diyoyo, Mansosa, and Kalenga. Everything in her life goes well until her friends, Diyoyo and Mansosa, don’t get along while Kalenga and Omana try to calm the situation. Omana soon gets angry and disappointed with her new friends. A few weeks later, Omana is chased by a fairy named Mihigo until she is lost at a magical place she never thought was real. In this magical place, she finds her friend, Diyoyo, by the Ocean. But Diyoyo has terrible news, Mansosa and Kalenga are missing in the magical world! Now, Omana and Diyoyo must find their friends and save them from the evil princess, Tazadi, in the Dark Tower who tried to ruin their friendship. Will Omana and Diyoyo win?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664192140

Jeanne Makwamba

Jeanne Bakamanabo Makwamba, was born in Democratic Republic of Congo, ( Kinshasa) move to America when she was 3 Months old lives in Staunton Virginia , attending Wilson Elementary School in Fishersville VA. she enjoy singing and playing Guitar at her church ( Staunton Christian Tabernacle ). Also helping her Mom in the kitchen. love to read and to draw , not to forget how much she loves God and her family ,she always thankful for a supportive family she has.

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Contents

Chapter 1: A Move to America

Chapter 2: I Don’t Know

Chapter 3: Diyoyo, Kalenga, and Mansosa

Chapter 4: Club Name

Chapter 5: Not Right

Chapter 6: Eccentric Woods

Chapter 7: A High Tower

Chapter 8: We Win!

Chapter 9: A Son

Chapter One

A Move to America

The plane soared through the clouds. Omana Feza’s plane was about to land in Virginia, where Omana would go to school. Ten-year-old Omana sighed heavily. She was living with her grandmas—her dad’s mom and her mom’s mom.

Nothing was the same as Africa, where she was from.

Her ninety-five-year-old grandmother (her mom’s mom) and her seventy-four-year-old grandmother (her dad’s mom) were adopting her after the eruption of the volcano of Goma. Fire shot from the volcano and burned houses. Both Omana’s parents got burned.

Omana, be good when you go to school, Marie said. Marie was her mom’s mom, and it was her grandmother’s first name, and Omana liked the name.

The plane finally arrived at the airport, and her uncle, Matondo, came to pick her up. Matondo was a man with a blackish-brown beard and burry eyebrows. Omana’s cousin, Nzeba, was the reason Matondo’s family moved to America—for education!

Nzeba was four years older than Omana.

Omana smiled when she saw Nzeba. Nzeba’s brown curls were the same size as Omana’s.

When Omana was fifteen-months old, four-year-old Nzeba made Omana