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Kaleidoscopes
Life itself is a Kaleidoscope! Kaleidoscope is a fictional novel which chronicles the lives of ten women of different races, backgrounds, tribes, professions, social strata and marital status, who are linked by one thing; they are either infected or affected by HIVAIDS. Through their stories, we read about the dilemma which some of them must deal with when faced with the reality that they have tested positive for HIV. Anyone can become infected or affected and HIV infection transcends race, tribe, sex, age, profession and social status. AIDS is still a very much dreaded disease, mainly because of the terrible stigma attached to it and because it is still incurable. However, it is noteworthy to reiterate the fact that being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence because there have been several advances in the Scientific and Pharmaceutical world. People living with HIV/AIDS, now have the chance to live positive lives. So, have you had your HIV test ? Let us stop spreading the Virus Let us stop the HIV/AIDS stigma!
166 pages, Paperback
Published October 25, 2018
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Adebola Adisa
7 books3 followersDr Adebola Adisa is a wife, mum, GP, inspirational speaker and author of four books.
She is a school governor, STEM Ambassador and committee member of the Black Women in Health, United Kingdom and the founder of Brave Hearts North East CIC, in the North East of England.
Adebola promotes healthy living through articles; health topics, poetry and other inspirational writing on her social media pages.
Dr Adisa stays active by walking and enjoys spending time with her family, cooking and exploring new dishes.
She believes that everyone has a book in them and is passionate about assisting them on their journey to writing it!
She is a school governor, STEM Ambassador and committee member of the Black Women in Health, United Kingdom and the founder of Brave Hearts North East CIC, in the North East of England.
Adebola promotes healthy living through articles; health topics, poetry and other inspirational writing on her social media pages.
Dr Adisa stays active by walking and enjoys spending time with her family, cooking and exploring new dishes.
She believes that everyone has a book in them and is passionate about assisting them on their journey to writing it!
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January 18, 2026
Ten women, ten lives and ten stories, happening simultaneously, separately, yet interlinked by a common factor - HIV/AIDS.
Adebola Adisa uses the concept of a KALEIDOSCOPE to tell each woman’s story as a part of a whole, giving you a unique point of view into the whole, where you get a different perspective depending on where you look, like the kaleidoscope or what story you read, like the book.
As a young person in Nigeria, from the 2010s and beyond, as far as I could remember, there was a global pandemic called HIV/AIDS, and it was incurable (and still is, as at the time I wrote this). There were all kinds of awareness about the disease - I mean, all kinds of awareness. I remember an experience from secondary school where the entire school was summoned to the school hall and they played video that explained the virus - it was a scary video that highlighted the horrors of exposure to sex as teenagers and how abstinence and how sexual purity and abstinence amongst other methods would keep us from contracting the virus, there were also shows like “Wetin Dey”, commercials on tltevision that enlightened the public about the virus.
The 15-year-old me would have enjoyed the book to the point of exhaustion. Rightly so, but reading the book now, as an adult, having the knowledge that I do now, it surprises me how ignorant most people were, how they chose to be, like Hauwa, who was a medical practitioner and was ignorant till it was too late.
One major theme through the ten stories in the book is the humanity of it all. Almost all the characters in the stories had people who understood their plight, who didn’t judge them. This reinforces the idea that with knowledge comes understanding, and with more people understanding the illness and how to effectively combat it, the stigma that comes with ignorance reduces.
So many years have passed since this book was first published, the author set out to enlighten the public about the disease, telling stories about it in a way that simplifies it for what it truly is - a disease, not a life sentence. Did it achieve what it set out to do? Oh yes, it did. resoundingly.
Adebola Adisa uses the concept of a KALEIDOSCOPE to tell each woman’s story as a part of a whole, giving you a unique point of view into the whole, where you get a different perspective depending on where you look, like the kaleidoscope or what story you read, like the book.
As a young person in Nigeria, from the 2010s and beyond, as far as I could remember, there was a global pandemic called HIV/AIDS, and it was incurable (and still is, as at the time I wrote this). There were all kinds of awareness about the disease - I mean, all kinds of awareness. I remember an experience from secondary school where the entire school was summoned to the school hall and they played video that explained the virus - it was a scary video that highlighted the horrors of exposure to sex as teenagers and how abstinence and how sexual purity and abstinence amongst other methods would keep us from contracting the virus, there were also shows like “Wetin Dey”, commercials on tltevision that enlightened the public about the virus.
The 15-year-old me would have enjoyed the book to the point of exhaustion. Rightly so, but reading the book now, as an adult, having the knowledge that I do now, it surprises me how ignorant most people were, how they chose to be, like Hauwa, who was a medical practitioner and was ignorant till it was too late.
One major theme through the ten stories in the book is the humanity of it all. Almost all the characters in the stories had people who understood their plight, who didn’t judge them. This reinforces the idea that with knowledge comes understanding, and with more people understanding the illness and how to effectively combat it, the stigma that comes with ignorance reduces.
So many years have passed since this book was first published, the author set out to enlighten the public about the disease, telling stories about it in a way that simplifies it for what it truly is - a disease, not a life sentence. Did it achieve what it set out to do? Oh yes, it did. resoundingly.
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