{"product_id":"9781514486047","title":"Dominic Ignatius Ekandem 1917-1995: The Prince Who Became a Cardinal, the Vanguard of Catholicism in Nigeria","description":"A phenomenon seldom recognised in the media of Western Europe and North America is the extraordinary growth of the Catholic Church of South America and sub-Saharan Africa during the last five decades, and nowhere more than in Nigeria. A key figure in that country and in that growth, up to his death in 1995, was Cardinal Ekandem, the first Anglophone West-African bishop  - the first of many - and an outstanding churchman of the 20th Century. Fr Michael Edem's scholarly biography of the Cardinal is a fascinating account of a journey from life in a traditional African village to the consistory of cardinals of the Catholic Church in Rome.  It will be of enormous interest to a wider public for the author's personal knowledge of the cardinal and of the Efik\/Ibibio culture in which they both grew up.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181709476080,"sku":"9781514486047","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781514486047_p0.jpg?v=1763727887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781514486047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}