Why Obi Lost His Voice

If getting everything you ever wanted meant someone else had to lose everything they had... would you still want it?

Years ago, Obi Nwosu was one of the most celebrated voices in the country. Charismatic, ambitious and seemingly destined for greatness, he had everything a man could want - a rising career, the woman he loved, and a future that seemed impossible to derail. Today, he lives behind three layers of security, unable to speak a single word.

When investigative journalist Fisayo Ayorinde is granted the first interview he has accepted in years, she expects to uncover a political scandal, a crime, or perhaps the truth behind the rumours that have followed him ever since the night his pregnant wife was murdered. Instead, she is handed a story that defies everything she believes about power, ambition and consequence.

It begins with a stolen ring.

As Fisayo pieces together the lives of a grieving carpenter, a paralysed boy searching for a miracle, an idealistic teacher, a struggling broadcaster, a family pulled apart by desperation, and a man whose every wish seemed to come true, an unsettling pattern begins to emerge. Every triumph carries a cost. Every answered desire leaves someone else paying the price. Every victory pushes the world, almost imperceptibly, towards catastrophe.

Because the ring never grants wishes. It accelerates consequences.

Why Obi Lost His Voice is a gripping literary thriller about ambition, grief, love, power and the dangerous belief that getting everything you want will finally make you whole.

As told in the Bardic Expressions.