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Eze on a Budget: Royal Life on Okirika Prices
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 8 2025
Pages: 744
Weight: 2.56
Height: 1.48 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
From Eight Cars to One Keke (And a Kingdom That Still Arrived)
Royal life, Okirika prices.
When the palace treasury coughs and the generator answers amen, Eze Obinna-soft-life traditionalist, crown connoisseur, AC enthusiast-declares AUSTERITY. Convoy shrinks from eight gleaming SUVs to one heroic keke with a stubborn siren. Champagne is replaced by zobo (on good days, very cold). And yet, somehow, His Majesty's taste remains... premium. Cue the funniest austerity program in African literature: a royal household running on receipts, community, and the Bell of Fairness.
- Lolo Amaka, the queen diplomat who can balance a budget with one eyebrow.
- Adaeze, the PR daughter who turns wahala into content and content into cash.
- Ijeoma, Market Queen and patience's final warning.
- Odogwu, loyal fixer whose DIY nearly works every time.
- Nan Taa!, generator whisperer, patron saint of maintenance.
- Sister Perpetua, head usher: Light is budgeted, not levied.
- Chief Chop-Life, opposition elder with champagne breath and surprising heart.
- Mama Ifeoma-and her enamel cup that once saved a child one sip at a time.
Eze wants dignity on discount. The kingdom wants clinics powered, boreholes flowing, schoolchildren fed. Between them: a parade of cost-cutting capers that keep tripping over the truth. There's the Okirika Coronation (dye runs like gossip), the Ride-Hail Majesty (driver is the rival's cousin), the Potluck State Banquet (aunties invoice for transport of pepper), and the night the chandeliers failed and Sister Perpetua's Torch Team stole the show.
But this isn't just jokes; it's joyful civics. The market square becomes the nation's favourite reality show as the Transparency Board goes up and the rules come out:
- Water Before Wi-Fi (stream after you drink).
- Care Before Ceremony (10% of every event for toilets, pads, soap, crèche, light).
- Serial or Sorry (if the part can't prove itself, the vendor can't invoice).
- Router After Reservoir.
- Tradition as Tag, Not Total (Eke-Orie-Afor-Nkwo may tag, but dates pay bills).
- No Night Collection, no escort fees, no ghost containers.
- Bell of Fairness: when it rings, we pause and check our hands.
Told in a warm Naija blend-clean English and Pidgin that snaps-the novel punches up (at waste, optics, and fake modernity), never down. Expect Yes, Minister wit, The Office awkward, open-air market banter, proverb flips (Cut your cloth according to your pocket; measure first; post budget before style), and in-world artifacts: WhatsApp chats, Apology Receipts, Board snapshots, even the IluFix app that patches mischievous sayings.
Stakes? Real ones. The clinic's power. The borehole's maintenance. The Tech Lab that turns Cup & Code into a future for kids who once queued for water. When Diaspora Day lands-with serial-numbered boxes, not stories-you'll be cheering for zobo over champagne and maintenance over miracles.
A heart-first comedy about how a crown learns to count-and how a community teaches it. Come for the keke convoy; stay for the receipts. If a goat tries to eat this blurb, don't panic. We laminated it.
Why you'll love it
- Bingeable chapters packed with set-pieces you'll quote: the Keke Convoy, Night Court by Torch, Festival Cow Lottery (feat. Bell Duet), and the Public Q&A where even Chief Chop-Life claps first.
- Code-switching dialogue that sings but stays crystal clear.
- A glossary for quick Pidgin/Igbo lookup (Abeg, Wahala, Sabi, Wetin, Una...).
- Running gags (red cap, generator cough, transport of pepper) that pay off.
- A comedy with receipts: every big laugh lands beside a small policy that matters.
If you've ever tried to run champagne taste on kpra-kpra budget, welcome. Make una siddon. Story don set.
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