Gerald Anietie Ignatius Akata

Forgiveness Gerald Anietie Ignatius Akata

Forgiveness: A Personal Spiritual Journey is a story told by an African international graduate student, Ofonime, who studies in the United States before the period of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He does not resolve the ways in which he is hurt and by whom he is hurt, which for a good while allows him to succeed, or at least get by and keep relationships with his classmates, superintendents, graduate schools, and academic advisers. But soon Ofonime finds that not resolving various ways in which he is hurt and by whom he is hurt makes him unhappy, and his beliefs in himself, God, neighbors, tradition, and values in the world are shattered. When he takes on what he calls "a personal spiritual journey," what follows is his epic realization of the sources of people's unhappiness and their greatest fear as well as what gives people their greatest joy and freedom in the world.