The Last Champion Wrestler

📖 The Scoop

Do you want to read a historic Nigerian novel that captures the traditional wresting activities of Niger Delta people?
Do you want to read a story about the contest between a mortal and an immortal spirit called Bheyi?
Are you a champion wrestler of the Ijaw Nation and you wish to reminisce the traditional wrestling of our people and the wrestling songs that charged our wrestlers?
Are you a curious reader, who wishes to find out about the activities that surrounded the traditional wrestling of the Ijaw people?
Search no further. The Last Champion Wrestler answers all the above questions and much more.

A great young hunter, who was on his way to inspect his traps, walked into a supernatural being, which they called Bheyi or Osuowei in Izon Language. Bheyi gave him some extraordinary power and he became the greatest champion wrestler in Ijaw Nation. After making great wealth by conquering all the reigning champion wrestlers in Ijaw Nation through Challenge Wrestling, Ewei finally realized that the gods had given him power, fame and wealth in exchange for children. Faced with the dilemma of childlessness, Ewei went to several medicine men and seers for solution but they told him that his ability to have children was solely in the hand of the gods. Pained by the saddening revelation, Ewei began his quest to confront the gods in another contest to have his children.

Genre: Fiction / Coming of Age (fancy, right?)