After losing their parents in a tragic accident, two young siblings expect their extended family to protect them. Instead, greed takes over. Their uncle seizes their father’s property, and a so-called oracle declares the innocent children responsible for their parents’ deaths—branding them witches and forcing the family to banish them. Sent to live with an unkind aunt in Lagos, the children are thrown into a harsh world of exploitation, poverty and crime. But beneath the fear and suffering, they refuse to surrender their hope. As secrets surrounding their parents’ death and stolen inheritance begin to surface, the children discover that the oracle was never speaking for the gods—it was speaking for men with something to hide. Children of the False Oracle is a gripping Nigerian story of betrayal, survival, courage and the long journey toward truth and justice.
