The Adventures of Amadi

A young African boy lives most of his early childhood in Austin, Texas. “Prince” is the name his parents call him ever since he was a young boy.

The name, “Prince”, would often cause Amadi to wonder about the meaning and importance of the name. Young Amadi knows about his Nigerian roots, but he has never visited his homeland. When his parents first announce that they are travelling back home to Africa, Amadi becomes incredibly happy, excited, and curious about travelling home to Nigeria. Amadi decides to bring along his talking parrot, Azu, knowing that it would be more exciting to go on adventures with his parrot friend. Amadi and his parents arrive in Nigeria to homecoming celebrations that are very traditional, lively, and fun.

During the festivities, Amadi suddenly learns that he is genuinely a Prince from the bloodline of mighty warriors who were gifted a magical treasure forest by the earth goddess. At first, everyone in the palace, including his parents, try to convince Amadi that the magical treasure forest is simply a myth, a folktale which does not exist. However, the mystery of the magical forest begins to unfold when Amadi realizes that the old woman he saved from the mischievous acts of bullies looks exactly like the painting on the wall of the goddess of the earth in the Golden Kingdom.

Through Prince Amadi’s acts of kindness and display of wisdom, the goddess is impressed and pleased with him. First, she gives him a magical golden stone to guide him to the treasure forest. Amadi almost loses the stone when the Tree Tribesmen accost him, claiming that the treasured golden stone belongs to them. Amadi is in a hard situation. How can he give up the golden stone, which is of great value to the Tree Tribesmen, when the goddess asked him to keep it safe? He is left with two choices: to show courage or to give up the treasure stone!

There is more for Amadi to discover in the Golden Kingdom. The more hurdles he encounters, the stronger and wiser he becomes until the inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom recognize him for who he is: The Prince of the Golden Kingdom.