WILLIAM QUEST
By Segun Ozique William’s Quest is a story about child to child kindness, about the bond and divides between two culture. It throws spotlight on the issues of child abuse but most of all, the book is a creative narrative on HIV/AIDS, with emphasis on the need to know about the HIV virus; stressing its reality and spread and of the ruin of the AIDS disease. The story is mainly about a boy called William; a ten years old who lives in England with his parents. His secret birthday gift plans for his mother, was disrupted by a telephone call from Nigeria, and afterwards, in a series of questions following the call, he got to learn about HIV/Aids, how the virus is spread and what not to do, so as not to be infected. Shortly after he got the information, he travelled to Nigeria where, for the first time, he met his grandmother. In Nigeria, William also met two brothers – Ahmed and Nurha. Nuhra was living with the HIV virus and dying of the Aids disease. And though William had been ...