SHINE ENYINNAYA NWOSU is the last of eight children. He is from Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.
His academic background is a scattered one, scattered being that he has lived till the age of 21 as a science student, even doing Biochemistry for two years in the university before dropping out of the University, after a so-called paradigm shift. So, he went on to change field of study and ended up studying Law because his mentor studied law and that same mentor is a storyteller, but more than a lighthouse.
He is the author of the novel, SOLD KIN (a historical fiction about the Atlantic slave trade in the Igbo hinterland of present day Nigeria.
Shine is the founder of the secure the future initiative, a movement for the betterment of mankind in all ramifications.
The author imagines a world where he can tell stories and change the world for the better.
In Sold Kin, Shine Enyinnaya Nwosu delivers a bold, unflinching reimagining of the Atlantic slave trade not from the shorelines of Europe, but from deep within the African hinterland. Set in pre-colonial Igbo society, this historical fiction novel confronts a painful, often overlooked truth: that Africans, too, played a role in the betrayal and sale of their own kin.
Sold Kin is not just a story about the past it is a mirror to the present. As Nigeria and many African nations grapple with poverty, corruption, and blame, this novel dares to ask: What if true liberation begins with responsibility?
PURPOSE FOR THE NOVEL AND MOVEMENT
Growing up in Nigeria I always heard the adults use words like, “in the good old days things were better and we had a better and good life,” they made these statements because at the present Nigeria is a third world country with so much poverty, illiteracy, and wanton killings from terrorism to banditry.
Also when we as children ask how did it get this bad, the replies are uniform. The colonial masters stole our resources and at the present we have bad leaders.
The truth is there are no good old days, and things have been this wrong for as long as anyone could remember.
Sold Kin is a historical fiction which delves into the story of slave trade in the African hinterland. The black man strongly believes that the White are the reasons for the slave trade but here I Present that the black man was the one who kidnapped their kinsmen and drove them as slaves from the hinterland to the shore for embarkation.
My point is simple, the word is RESPONSIBILITY. Let us the ‘black man’ take the responsibility that we are the reason we are backward and not the leaders or white man, let us change our ways and our mindset.
This is the simple message of the novel. This message also gave birth to the movement The New Belief Initiative.
Shine Enyinnaya Nwosu believes that the black community can get better, it is a wide believe that the system is corrupt and dirty but if the young ones and masses are shown a better way maybe there will light for the black man at the end of the tunnel.
Sold Kin is unlike any historical fiction I’ve read. Shine Enyinnaya Nwosu does what few authors dare he turns the camera inward. This book doesn’t just recount history, it challenges the reader to rethink everything they’ve been told about Africa’s past. Brutal, beautiful, and utterly necessary.
This novel made me uncomfortable in the best way. It doesn’t seek pity or offer easy answers. It gives us responsibility, and that’s far more powerful. Shine is a new voice we must listen to.
You don’t just read Sold Kin—you feel it. The storytelling is rich, the characters are haunting, and the message is clear: we must look within to move forward. A brilliant debut
