In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E.
The story of a woman who survived genocide, famine, poverty, and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to the streets of South London and eventually the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, Where the Children Take Us is an unforgettable portrait of strength, tenacity, love, and perseverance embodied in one towering woman..
When distractions persist, she literally cuts the TV cord and installs a residential pay phone.
Desperate for inspiration, she plasters newspaper clippings of Black success stories on the walls and hunts for overachieving neighbors to serve as role models, all while running Shakespeare theatre lines with her son and finishing homework into the early morning with Zain.
As her Children veer down the wrong path, she instills a Family book club with Western literary classics, testing their resolve and challenging their deeper understanding.
When grief threatens to engulf her fractured Family after the accident, Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land, refuses to accept defeat.
Together, they emigrate to London in the 1970s to escape the violence, but soon confront a different set of challenges in the West.
The generations-old Nigerian parenting techniques that lead to the family\'s salvation were born in the village Where young Obiajulu and Arinze meet with their country on the brink of war.
With her relentless support, the Children exceed all expectations--becoming a CNN anchor, an Oscar-nominated actor--Asher\'s older brother Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 12 Years a Slave )--a medical doctor, and a thriving entrepreneur.
Drawing on tough-love parenting strategies, Obiajulu teaches her sons and daughters to overcome the daily pressures of poverty, crime and prejudice--and much more.
There is tragedy in this tale, but it is not a tragedy.
Asher, tells the story of her mother\'s harrowing fight to raise four Children as a widowed immigrant in South London.
In Where the Children Take Us , Obiajulu\'s daughter, Zain E.
There\'s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead.
Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news.
Asher pays tribute to her mother\'s strength and determination to raise four successful Children in the shadow of tragedy.
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E
