Story By Akaninyene Etuk
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Akaninyene Etuk

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Akaninyene Ufot Etuk is a Nigerian, from Akwa Ibom State. He is a researcher and prolific writer. He writes both academic works and fictional/creative works. He has many published academic papers to his name. He also has many unpublished creative works such as poems, short stories and novels. He is also a freelancer. His passion for writing is like a deer panting for water. His inspiration is from nature and it\'s opposite ends: good and bad, beauty and ruin, strength and weakness, male and female, etc.
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Wale and the Little Moonlight
Updated at Feb 19, 2022, 01:02
WALE AND THE LITTLE MOONLIGHT is a story of a young boy Wale born with the ability to communicate with the moon into an ordinary kingdom of Ogunta in a region called Oduduwaland. Hence, the geographical setting could be deduced to be in Yorubaland in present-day Nigeria. The time setting is in the pre-colonial era. During this time, wealth was not significant but valour, political power, war victory, and brotherhood were very much of great value. Wale became the greatest warrior in Ogunta, and defended Ogunta from the conquest of powerful kingdoms and made Ogunta the most powerful kingdom in all of Oduduwaland. Wale and Ogunta were to meet with their fall when Wale saw the strangest and most beautiful woman on Earth for the first time; she was as fair and bright as the moon, and Wale believed the Moon had sent his daughter to be with him. Wale lost his virginity to this strange woman, and the next morning he could not find her again, but doom greeted Ogunta as strange looking men like Giants walked the soil of Ogunta and rampaged the land taking everyone captive, including Wale. Wale thought that was the end of himself and Ogunta, that the moon had rather sent his daughters to spy on them and then sent these aliens to destroy them. At the bank of Omini river, Wale remembered the power of his tears and cries, and cried, so nature was in commotion, it rained like a storm. Later, the sun which was eclipsed through out the Invaders' raiding, came up bright again at the shifting of the clouds. All of nature was with Wale and Ogunta, even the sun stood in for the moon to help Wale. The Invaders became weak and fainted by all these happenings, Wale received supernatural strength and broke his chains. The captives became the captors. The Invaders were beheaded and the stream was saturated with their blood. The blood never dried off, Omini became a place for the gods while Wale and his feat reigned forever, even beyond Oduduwaland, across many mountains and waters.
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