Featured Author this Quarter: Canon Edmund Ilogu

Title: Coping With Three Cultures: The Autobiography of Canon Professor Edmund Ilogu

Publisher:

Sungai Books
P. O. Box 3295
Princeton, New Jersey

ISBN: Paperback 1-889218-18-9
Hardback 1-889218-19-7

Audience: Teenagers and older; Selected parts can also be shared with younger children

Author's Background
Edmund Ilogu was born to a polygamous father on April 25, 1920. His father who died in 1926 was not a Christian. Canon Ilogu was raised by his mother and older brother. He is a husband, a father and grandfather. His education spans many decades and several countries. He migrated to the United States in 1986. He is currently studying the effects of Pentecostalism on the Anglican Church in Nigeria.

Book Review
The autobiography of Canon Ilogu invites you to live the life of this well lettered Nigerian man of the cloth for a while. This book provides readers an opportunity to share Edmund Ilogu's joys, tears and fears. Canon Ilogu speaks earnestly and unpretentiously about his person, his beginning and his journeys. He does not apologize for his life, rather he presents us with a history lesson, a glimpse into different occurrences in several nations and various circumstances in several lives, including his own.

We travel with Edmund Ilogu from Ihiala in Eastern Nigeria through other towns and cities in Nigeria to those in Europe and the United States. You will feel honored to meet a man who knows who he is and plainly acknowledges where he has been. His is a life in the here and now with a hand in the future. This book bridges nationalities and is definitely for all people who choose to know and understand what it is to truly live with others. Edmund Ilogu has learnt a lot about living a life of tolerance. Each reader will find himself uncovered somewhere in this book.