KELLER, Texas, July 15, 2009 — Mel C. Igbokwe, quoting Henry Cisneros, a professor of environmental studies and notable Hispanic activist, reminds us, “Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, and a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they’ll sign on.”
Igbokwe grew up in the typical African background with combined experience of African and American lifestyles. Within the spirit of the American way of life, he has written “All Eyes on U.S.: And Yes We Can” (published by AuthorHouse), in which he presents the importance of problem-solving gathered from the different situations of his upbringing in Nigeria, and how the experience in tackling some of his village problems prepared him to take an active part in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. “It’s all about sacrifice and dedication,” he writes:
If anyone wonders how history should honor all our heroes and heroines, my book jogs your mind on how not to forget them. This book calls on every age to respect their foremost ambassadors in the world — their mothers and fathers, dead or living. To all, you will gain knowledge in my prediction that American success in alternate and renewable energy is likely to create catastrophic effects throughout the oil-producing nations of the world. America leads the world and therefore is too mighty to fail in whatever it does. America is the most generous and compassionate nation in the world. We have no choice in the position of our greatness and in our responsibility to take the world to a resounding moral and successful path.
Through independent thinking and socioeconomic concerns, Igbokwe encourages readers to have a mind of their own. In Chapter 20: Global Warmth, he displays the courage of his conviction going against arguments about global temperature change. He calls on the U.S. to establish a “realistic approach in lifting Africa up, not by the old system of pumping endless cash into endless dark tunnels, but through support of reliable and dependable sources of energy so that the people can work and walk themselves up to end their long dependence on foreign aid.” He challenges America to wage war against the practice of siphoning African assets into foreign banks.
Originally from a small village known as Amuzi Town in Imo State southeast of Nigeria, Igbokwe was born in 1951 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1990. He became a citizen of the United States of America in 2000. He has been visiting home in Africa regularly and “instead of improvement, I see much handwriting on the wall that sets the wall of advancement crumbling,” he said.
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