For the Second Year, Ray Anyasi’s Alusi is the Darling of Guests at UIU Dallas Convention

The Umu Igbo Unite Dallas convention held over the weekend, 7-10 August, at the Renaissance Dallas Addison Hotel. And as usual, thousands of people of Igbo ethnicity gathered for the many exciting and informative events on the program. One item of thrill however was stationed at the exhibition pavilion where Peda Entertainment has their booth. The Alusi graphic novel released last year by Peda in the penultimate edition has once again caught the eyes of the guests and they can’t get enough of it.

Hundreds of guests grabbed a copt for themselves and for loved ones before the book ran out of stock on the tables.

Alusi is a deeply fascinating telling of a convoluted relationship between the Igbo people and the deities of its Mythology. In the story set in ancient Igbo-uku governed by the spiritual leadership of Eze-Nri, Ejinna, the anti-hero figure sets out to right what he things is wrong with the sprawling Igbo civilization which might be its undoing. This quest demands that Ejinna builds an indomitable army to fortify Ala-igbo as a military power which protects its industrialization. But the Alusis who reside in Elu, led by Amadioha, are divided over his ambition. This division and the crashing cataclysmic effect it would have on the mortals is what the graphic novel follows.

At the convention, Chizoba Uwandu, Peda Entertainment CEO tells Geek Digest that the overwhelming interest in the Alusi story confirms that Africans are finally waking up to the need to not only seeking broader Entertainment targeted at telling their unique story but also backing this desire with their purchasing power. “People are asking us for an Alusi animation, and to be done in the Igbo language…” he said.

Alusi brilliantly takes the reader through a subtle awareness of the spiritual, political and cultural complexities of the pre-colonial Igbo society that no western literature will ever teach. It is created and written by Ray Anyasi, one of Africa’s most published authors based in the UK.

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