Uche Alison’s Irawo: The Making of a Star is a story base on a true life story and Uche is on a mission to impact destiny fulfilling knowledge to the youth through teaching and giving free educational material.
According to Uche, Irawo – The making of a star is an abducted story from his general overseer who was actually given a story about a young boy called Irawo.
It was said that the day the little boy was born, three old priests from different villages came together at the same spot where he was born and at the end of the day, the boy was trapped in a pit of sand and was tucked but before the word OIrawo was said, he jumped out and then landed on that pit sand.
According to Uche, he started asking himself what would have happened to this boy while he was in the pit of sand.
Irawo -The making of a star is a story that portrays the fact that character drives talent toward greatness. With the book, which is set in Ogbomosho, Oyo State he has shown that there is no interaction between light and darkness.
It is a story that gives the religious belief of the author away as a Christian who believes that no matter how hard it gets, persistence, determination and trust in God can aid any individual to realize his destiny.
The Story -Irawo the Making of a Star.
Unick College’s principal raises the school’s academic standard, initiating rivalry between the most valuable, arrogant basketball player, IRAWO, and his closest friend, TAYO.
As events unfold, the gap between Irawo and Tayo widens, until Irawo stubbornly goes into a quicksand area, and gets trapped in it. He loses consciousness, and his spirit travels to a suspension hall – a place between life and death.
In the suspension hall, he is shown two screens: a left screen showing the events going on while he is in a coma on earth; and a right screen showing the fulfilling life he would have lived had he not gone into the quicksand.
His time runs out; the medical personnel are unable to revive him. He cannot return to Earth, and he is not qualified for heaven either.
Only God’s mercy – through the prayers of Tayo and his class teacher –is able to snatch him from the grips of the angels from hell.
He returns to Earth and renounces his family’s idol – the creator – causing a rift between himself and his parents. He begins to enjoy a selfless relationship with his friends; he wins back the love and respect of the most sought-after girl, the school founder’s daughter.
The mysteries of the suspension experience begin to unravel: Tayo takes a bullet for him just when he is starting to bask in the glory of the most coveted basketball prize; he discovers his parents had sacrificed his three unborn siblings, in order to give him the life that was prophesied; his parents attempt to poison him, in staunch commitment to the cause of the creator.
He must live these bitter realities with a new family, and defy all odds to become the star God destined him to be.
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