Today we talk about Outrageous, a book by Kwaku Oxxaz published with our publishing house Europe Books.
Europe Books had the pleasure of interviewing the author Kwaku Oxxaz to get to know him better, where he found the inspiration to write his book Outrageous, as well as how he chose the title of his book.
Below you can find our interview. Take a seat and enjoy your reading!!!
- Where did you find the inspiration to write this book?
Perfectly, to begin tackling the topic, –Inspiration to write a book, I firstly reflected on the idioms and ideologies which pushed mankind to examine symbols & paintings of the stone age period and medieval levels of prints or drawings, representing ideas or events, igniting thoughtful invention for alphabetical writings of languages, designed to preserve modern civilizations. Perhaps if writings have been invented and existed during those trying periods in man’s history, archaeologists could have had lesser work to do. I pause for a minute to say ‘chapeau’, to lift the Parisienne cliché in the 18eme zone in Paris, to the invention of writing, which researchers have defined as ‘any conventional systems of marks or signs that represents the utterances of a language’, rendering languages quite visible. Specifically, this sort of art forming visible letters of characters exist to man’s benefit today, thanks to its works of revolutionaries: their invention till today, has immensely transform man’s ideas and thoughts, promoting among others, the hike of hyper scientific and technological growth, utilized to move civilizations to a new height of levels. Creativity of writings have performed with honor and excellence to be able to record issues from culture to religion, from science and mathematics to technology; inventions forms and formats, to others like practice of literary or musical compositions have been recorded for the benefit of today’s civilizations, and for posterity. I’d the dynamism, the spirit and formula to write this book, trailing on the dogma of the Media, designed among others, to:
- Inform
- Educate
- Entertain
I take this opportunity also to congratulate pioneers of the Press for their onerous contributions which helped to accelerate the pace of civilizations, in propagation of its basic functions to playing a leading role in areas of civic education, giving back-up running to uphold practices of justice, and taking a leading role in exploitation of strings leading to amplifying the fundamental rights of the individual, and also being in the frontal role in the fight against tyranny, oppression and fascism.
- What is the message you want to send out with your writing?
Most of the topics and expressions in my books, take examples of the Media gallant pioneers, who fought tirelessly to improve and propagate the dignity of the humankind, exposing evils practices which mitigate against mankind search for progress, peace, and stability on this planet, called EARTH. As topics in the book—Outrageous testifies, the book deals with issues ranging from Religion to culture, of social & economic subjects, science & technology, with strong emphases on education, to the uplift of justice and freedom, to help raise the level of civilizations to the next level of height evolution. I see that with the concept, which engineered social media, now providing a host of citizen reporters on their platforms plus video activists projecting self-images etc., formally scanned-off by the conservative Press, has taken frontal lead in the idioms and ideology of the role of the media as previously outlined. In my point of view, I still see the vacuum in the running of social media, with its dominated ‘CHAT’ operative systems. I’ve at the back of my mind, that this very book will help feel the vacuum or spaces ignored by both the Conservative Press/TVs and social media, in areas of effective Media investigations and giving deep analyses on issues—it has no intentions whatsoever to replace the golden roles being played by both the Conservative Press & TV, and the Social Media.
- When did your passion for Writing start?
Certainly, I’m sort of an addict to Literature: having slipped into the Journalistic field, perhaps by accident, my love and passion to write took a heighten turn in my life, to be able to tell the story from its gender of Exodus to Revelations, to borrow the words of Scriptures, with greatest respect. Background to this incident is that I performed poorly at school on issues of Science & Mathematics; and realized I couldn’t make any headway in my efforts to embrace with is culture. Regrettably, there’s a darling background to this my failure in arts of science and mathematics. Having fortunately or unluckily, being born and groomed in a rural setting, where a piece of bread, seemed a luxury, being perhaps a heaven sent, like those of the ‘Manna’, which fell to the advantage of the Israelis in the Moses wilderness, having access to education was the type of Herculis task to do with. Trekking daily ‘to & from’ school, covering about 10 km distance, through the jungle track path, mostly on empty stomach, with barely nothing on dining table—what have I just written, ‘dining table’, such never existed in my vocabulary: footing on walking-path through the jungle and at times being crisscrossed by deadly snakes like vipers, certainly would not give me brains for the culture of science and mathematics. The subjects, in my pre-teen analyses belonged to the city dwellers, whose parents could afford riding in latest SUVs. Do you want me to continue? For it was very simplified when growing up, on the jungle road, to school to keep reciting ABCD EFG>>> than dealing with multiplications.
- How did you decide for the title of your book?
I’ve been chased and hunted for years, because of stand I sworn to my guardian angles, to be on the front-lines, in struggles and fight for mankind emancipation from treacheries of exploitation of slavery, to stand up tall against any forms & acts of autocracy, whether in Africa, Latin America, Russia or for example in Europe. Just to give you an example: In during the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, France President Emmanuel Macron, and others in governance in Canada, EU and US propagated, ordering the seizure of Russia oligarchy Luxury yachts: I wrote in serious of own options on X-platform to express my outrage and disappointment over such incidents, since their decisions hoovered on the borders of PIRACY, which stand outlawed in the world—Completely OUTRAGEOUS. Part of my book talks about the period of European countries, dividing Africa for promote their national interest; the harm and indignities meted out by European colonizers, perhaps some existing till today, through exploitation of Africa national resources, like oil & gas, gold, and diamonds. Such are some of the issues of OUTRAGEOUS, which I’ve amplified in my book.
- Are you planning to write more books?
2nd book—blood dollar rampage of about 350 pages completed. Listen publishing houses, just like banks, or any other commercial enterprises, exist and survive and live by sanity inherent in profits, streaming on their balance sheet. Writing a book, apart from its hazardous lonely hours ranging from perhaps 5-10 hours a day, on a laptop computer, apart from its associated medical impairments, require $ investment, and to quote financial analysts of about $5-10’000 for a writer to possess a bargaining power in transactions with publishers. Regrettable, by financial accounts, of course not in insolvency, could not make the grade with conservative publishers. Exploring the field for self-publishing platforms: My 3rd. book—devil’s Highway is in the pipeline>>>
Europe Books thanks the author Kwaku Oxxaz once again for taking the time and answering our questions. We are really pleased to have walked alongside him on the editorial path that led to the publication of his book Outrageous. We wish him the best of luck for his book and for his future works.
To you, my dear reader, may the various themes addressed in the book be of your great interest and, above all, a source of deepening and enrichment as regard to your knowledge and themes unknown to you.
So, my dear reader, all I have to say is to enjoy your reading!
Your editor!