Long Distance Love (This is a memoir of my second trip to Nigeria and my engagement to a Nigerian Woman)

Summary of Long Distance Love by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd

Blurb: This poet writer School Administrator sits in his principal or Site Leader’s office and dreams about returning to Nigeria and writing a new novel. A good Nigerian friend then decides to introduce him to his niece in Lagos, Nigeria. The relationship blossoms online, through the telephones and through letters.

Larry travels to Nigeria for the first time in 24 years to meet his lovely fiancé to be. While Ukali waits and goes through the fiance visa process he writes some of the most beautiful poetry
ever written while professing his love to Ese. Ese is younger than Ukali. Eventually a visa given after 4 years and this young fiancé arrives only to get cold feet and returns to Nigeria.

While in Nigeria Ukali flies to his beloved Benin City and upcountry to a village called Ubiaja in Edo State in Nigeria among others 80 miles up country where he runs into twin politician friends whom Larry had not seen for 24 years. What a friend’s reunion!

How do you think this story ends? One will need to read this one through the conclusion to see how this story to see how this African-American-Nigerian love relationship ends up.

Long Distance Love is a travel narrative style culture and autobiographical nonfiction love story about a struggling writer-school administrator who traveled to Nigeria 24 years ago and
Wrote Journey to the Motherland From San Francisco to Benin City, his first autobiographical novel and last year a group of
Essays and Spoken Word style Poetry titled LOVING BLACK WOMEN was published, both by a LA, CA based publisher.

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