Lara’s Lessons (Paperback)

Lara’s Lessons, though a fictional account, is a timely manual for African/Nigerian parents raising young, vulnerable girls in a Gen-Z and Gen-X era with all its accompanying evils and tragedies meted on young women at the slightest opportunity. Young women, and sometimes older women, are now daily victims of kidnap, rape, ritual killing, cyber stalking, and other forms of sexual abuse, and most of these crimes are facilitated through social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp tools are now meant for stalking, monitoring, and luring young girls into coming out to meet their killers in the guise of a hangout. At other times, the younger, impressionable ones are hoodwinked into sending their nude photos and are eventually blackmailed into redeeming themselves with sexual gratifications or parting with huge sums.