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  • Why I married a Yoruba Muslim in 1984 – Onyeka Onwenu reveals in forthcoming memoir

    Why I married a Yoruba Muslim in 1984 – Onyeka Onwenu reveals in forthcoming memoir

    Onyeka Onwenu, an ace singer and actress, has finally opened up on her connubial relationship, revealing why she got married to a Yoruba Muslim in 1984.

    The mother of two children in a chat with who had always kept her love life private brought this revelation to light in ‘My Father’s Daughter’, her memoir, which is set to be released on October 1.

    In a chat with the Cable, the 68-year-old movie star revealed how they fell in love more than decades ago and how the union brought about the birth of her two sons — Tijani and Ibrahim.

    Read statement below;

    “In this book, I am, perhaps for the very first time, setting the records straight concerning my connubial relationship. Yes, I was married. I married a man I fell in love with in 1984,” she said.

    “We have two children: Tijani and Ibrahim. (Ibrahim later changed the first letter of his name from I to A, and thus became Abraham.) My husband is Yoruba, and was a Muslim when we met.”

    The autobiography also documents her life as a musician, activist, wife, mother, and politician as well as her formative contact with feminism.

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    The author shared how the war — between 1967 to 1970 — scalded her teenage life, the debilitating effects of successive realities, and how her family remained bound amid the frightening experience.

    She also documents her years in America, the conflicts that were the products of being a migrant, her experience with workplace sexual harassment, and her decision to quit her job at the UN.

    Speaking about the forthcoming book, Expand Press Limited, her publishers, described ‘My Father’s Daughter’ as a deeply personal account of Onwenu’s life spanning previously unknown details.

    “On the marriage front, she explores challenges women face and how she refused to shrink herself to accommodate her husband’s insecurities about her fame,” it said.

    “It’s a memoir young persons must read. Women especially will glean numerous lessons from her life experience since successful women in Nigeria rarely share their story in a candid manner.”

  • S/Korea says Bolton’s memoir on Trump-Kim summit distorted

    S/Korea says Bolton’s memoir on Trump-Kim summit distorted

    Accounts by former U.S. National Security Adviser, John Bolton, of discussions between leaders of the United States and the two Koreas, in his upcoming book, are inaccurate and distorted, South Korea said on Monday.

    Bolton gives details in the book of conversations before and after three meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including how their second summit in Vietnam fell apart.

    The book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”, is scheduled for publication on Tuesday but media outlets have released excerpts.

    Reports have cited Bolton as writing that Moon, who is keen to improve relations with North Korea, had raised unrealistic expectations with both Kim and Trump for his own “unification” agenda.

    “It does not reflect accurate facts and substantially distorts facts,’’ South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-Yong, said in a statement, referring to Bolton’s description of top-level consultations.

    Chung did not elaborate on specific areas South Korea saw as inaccurate but said the publication set a “dangerous precedent”.

    “Unilaterally publishing consultations made based on mutual trust violates the basic principles of diplomacy and could severely damage future negotiations,’’ he said.

    Trump and Kim met for the first time in Singapore in June 2018, raising hope for efforts to press North Korea to give up its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

    But their second summit, in Vietnam in early 2019, collapsed when Trump rejected an offer by Kim to give up North Korea’s main nuclear facility in return for lifting some sanctions.

    Bolton reportedly cites Chung as relaying Moon’s response to the breakdown as, on the one hand, Trump was right to reject Kim’s proposal but on the other, Kim’s willingness to dismantle the Yongbyon facility was a “very meaningful first step” toward “irreversible” denuclearisation.

    Bolton refers to Moon’s position as “schizophrenic”.

    Asked about that reference by Bolton, a top official in Moon’s office told reporters: “Perhaps he is in that condition’’. (Reuters/NAN)