Writing is art, publishing is business. But getting a title for a book of 18 years is the real stress. In the heat of the revolving inspiration that led to this engrossing piece, Olukorede Sadiq Yishau had first gone with “the Prophet.” “It was too direct,” he says, so he renamed it “Angels live in Heaven,” afterwards he stuck with “In the name of the Father.” But the award winning Editor wasn’t done with finding a suitable title yet. So a month to publication in 2018, a Google Search revealed that “In the name of the Father” was already taken. This time, it was in a 1993 American movie bearing the exact same title.

That was where he replaced the definite article with possessive pronoun, “our.” This was different from a Somalia novel, “In the name of our Fathers,” which dealt with ancestors. Call it a near miss even though it has no copyright implication.
So far the book has grossed 6,000 copies sold. “How to do that was no mean feat,” Yishau responds. “It was a matter of leveraging your networks. Besides, not many authors count copies sold by the ones being sold off the shelves,” he counters. The book is quite gripping. The inspiration was from one of the night diaries of the Source magazine back in the day. It used to be for reporters until the audience got a chance to tell their own tales. That was where the character of T.C Jeremiah, the prophet was unveiled.

The book is truly engrossing. The events are like a rollercoaster, or better described as punch lines dropping from a mouth of a rap star with each word, diction and line carefully tailored to jolt you in the end. One moment, a journalist, Justus Omoeko gets threatened, then his fiancée is roped into the mud and before you say Jack, the relationship ends. Before Prophet Jeremiah is unveiled, his foil is revealed in Alani. The moment he is responsible for the death of a 21 year old, the true demon grows.

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