Description

ABOUT THE BOOK

WHEN FISHES CLIMB TREES helps you understand the price for moving our kids out of their comfort zones, in pursuit of courses, careers and a life they are not wired for!

It also teaches parents how they can help them connect the dots between passion, talent and purpose!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kingsley Obom-Egbulem is a social entrepreneur, career coach, radio talk show host, teens and parenting counsellor. He is the host of MANHOOD – a radio talk show for men(and boys) which aims at redefining fatherhood, masculinity and raising a new generation of men who would promote respect for women(and girls) while speaking up against rape and domestic abuse. Kingsley has been working with children and teenagers and counselling parents for over 16 years and currently serves as the Head of the Junior Church of Daystar Christian Centre, where he provides leadership for a team of over 600 teachers responsible for building and nurturing our 7,000 plus children and teens.

His work with children and family has helped many churches and schools institute systems for building strong children rather than waiting to repair broken adults.

A member of the World Health Editors Forum (Geneva, Switzerland) Kingsley was honoured with the Ambassador for Peace Award by the Inter-Religious and International Federation for World Peace and the Universal Peace Federation in 2010, he founded the MANHOOD Project, an intervention aimed at addressing unhealthy masculinity, sexism, violence against women/girls, rape and sexual assault, dysfunctional fathering and other problems arising from poor socialisation of boys.

Kingsley has a degress in Mass Communication and later specialised in Journalism and Public Relations with a bias for medical and public health journalism.

He has worked in different consulting capacities for pharmaceutical giants-Roche and several DFID/UKAID, UNAIDS programmes on good governance, health reforms, public health communication and infectious disease prevention. He has also written, reported and delivered papers on these issues in 25 cities across 4 continents.

Kingsley sits on the board of several NGOs and schools.

His second book, FLASHES: dialogues and monologues of stolen childhood and lost innocence is an epic retelling of the horrors of incest and child sexual abuse in Nigeria. His first book, WHEN FISHES CLIMB TREES is the product of over a decade of counselling and mentoring teenagers and their parents. The book is a hands-on career guide for parents and teenagers on how to avoid studying the ‘wrong course’ and pursuing the wrong career by connecting talents, passion and purpose.

Kingsley is married and blessed with 4 children who have been immense gifts in his parenting journey and ministry.