One Boy!: A Boarding School Memoir - Hardcover

by Benjamin Maiangwa (Author)

One Boy! is an emotionally charged--and at times even humorous--coming-of-age story. In his debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the world of a boy navigating the space between youthful innocence and the harsh realities of a Catholic boarding school in Nigeria.

Maiangwa's journey unfolds across a landscape shaped by the fragility of friendship, loss, and the urgent search for self. As he matures within the strict confines of the boarding school and the religious hostilities of the outside world, he arrives at a moral crossroads: should he uphold the Christian virtue of forgiveness or yield to the seductive pull of revenge?

One Boy! is both a story of survival and a meditation on what it means to remain whole in a world that so often seems designed to break us.

Author Biography

Benjamin Maiangwa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University. He was also a 2021 Teaching Fellow at Durham University. He received the 2020 University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award. He is the author of The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding and editor of The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race, and Belonging. One Boy! is his first work of creative non-fiction.