Moria's Scar: Agbekoya Uprising

By Bimbo Bakare

Boston gave her everything, but Nigeria holds the answer to the day she shattered

Twenty-seven years ago, Moriamo was a young girl with a future. Then came the Agbekoya Uprising, a peasant revolt against brutal taxation. A chance encounter with the demonstrators left her with a fractured leg and a broken spirit, forcing her into exile. In America, she reinvented herself, trading trauma for triumph as a successful realtor, burying her past deep beneath the weight of the American Dream.

But the past is never truly buried.

A chance meeting with a terminally ill Swiss Chocolate Mogul, a man whose wealth hints at global complicity, cracks Moria's perfectly polished facade. Spurred by an urgent need to understand the Uprising, she abandons her million-dollar deals and returns to Nigeria, a country she has spent half her life hating, to uncover the truth behind the chaos that had traumatised her.

Reuniting with her childhood friend, Mulika, Moria journeys across the lands of the old Western State, navigating whispers of corruption and revolutionary fire. As they interview the aging survivors, the truth emerges: the Agbekoya Uprising was not just a local revolt. It was also a casualty of international manipulation, a wound inflicted by unseen, powerful hands.

Moria thought she was only chasing history, but she is fighting for her soul. To finally heal, she must confront not only the ghosts of her nation but the powerful men who decided that African lives were the acceptable price of profit.

Some Wounds Can Only Be Healed When The Truth Is Finally Told

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3KW9NB6
• ISBN13: 9798271019906
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"