In this compelling episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram engages entrepreneur, engineer, freelance writer, poet, and novelist Farastein Mokwenye in a quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring his creative journey, literary expression, and his powerful contribution to historical fiction. Listeners should increase the audio volume due to sound issues.

Farastein is the author of Tales of Jideofor, a sweeping historical romance fiction novel that follows the life of Jideofor during the transatlantic slave trade era. Beginning in Illah in the Western Igbo lands and extending to Jamaica, the story unfolds through a complex web of dreams, death, destiny, and the afterlife. The full‑length novel expands upon his earlier short story of the same name, which won runner‑up at ...