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A Love Like This

A Short Story

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A Love Like This

By: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Narrated by: Georgina Elizabeth Okon, Nene Nwoko, Ike Amadi
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A sweeping, evocative short story that spans decades, A Love Like This is a captivating tale of love and self-discovery from award-winning Nigerian author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim.

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

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About the Creator

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He is the author of the short story collection The Whispering Trees (2012), the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015), and his latest collection, Dreams and Assorted Nightmares (2020). As well as being a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013), a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015), and a Dora Maar Fellow (2020) Abubakar has been nominated for various awards, including the Caine Prize (2013) and Etisalat Prize for Literature (2014). He won the BBC African Performance Playwriting Competition (2007), The Amatu Braide Prize for Prose (2008) and the Nigeria Prize for Literature (2016) and the Goethe Institut/Sylt Foundation African Writer Residency Award, the same year. He was also included in the Hay Festival Africa 39 (list of the most promising sub-Saharan African writers under 40). His works have been translated into several international languages.

Nene Nwoko
Georgina Elizabeth Okon

About the Performer

Nene Nwoko is a trained multilingual voice and screen actress living in the United States of America. Born and raised in Nigeria, Nene is fluent in English, Pidgin English, and Igbo. While growing up in a household infused with performing arts and education, her love for visual story telling bloomed. She spent much of her time performing in school productions from elementary school through college and then went on to train at the prestigious Identity School of Acting. Nene is also the Founder and Producer of Bufine Productions. A production company dedicated to telling stories that make the heart smile.

About the Performer

Georgina Elizabeth Okon is a British-born, Nigerian actor, voice over artist, and singer based in Los Angeles. Her body of work includes voiceover roles in the feature film, Black Panther, Simply Black, and television series Scorpion, The Break, Unit 42, Mortel; her on camera roles include the Television Series Bob Hearts Abishola, Shrill; the documentary film Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy, the short film Fugitive Zero for which she received 7 "Best Supporting Actress" awards.

Intriguing Storyline • Bittersweet Romance • Excellent Narration • Emotional Depth • Transcendent Love • Dual Readers

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The story finished waaay too soon. the narrations were excellent and I was right there, feeling those deep feelings with them.
Bravo!!!👌🏿👌🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🔥

A.love.story you simply MUST listen to!!

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I really loved the story, bitter sweet love, lose, and the deep yearning of "What if and If only".

Taken Back

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Abubakar is definitely one of Nigeria's finest writers and this work reemphasises it. Thank you for such a fantastic story.

The story...this story is diamond!

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It was soooooo good… short and to the point but I still want more!!!! :-). So good

I want more

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I had to listen to this short story twice to understand that there were references to events that took place outside the story. It makes me wonder if perhaps this is an excerpt of a larger story. Also, there was A male and a female reader, which would make sense if in the larger story we are following two separate interwoven storiesThe storyline was intriguing.

Confusing: Is this an excerpt of a larger story?

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