Born in Aba, Nigeria, Ernest Chetachukwu Anudu was raised in a traditional Christian family. Owing to his childhood dream of becoming a priest, he pursued his studies from the minor seminary to the major seminary, where he studied philosophy.

In 2018, he left Nigeria for Germany, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Intercultural Theology and his Master’s degree in International Migration and Intercultural Relations.

His experience, which the reader would readily read, inspired this work. This began simply as a process of writing down his thoughts, memories and reflections–each to understand the events unfolding around him. Still, it quickly grew into an accumulated narrative that tells a story about vocation, identity and purpose of living between two continents and cultures.

Ernest was able to demonstrate the inherent duality of the priestly vocation from the moment the individual became conscious of the calling to his development, humanly and psychologically, to become like Christ, the eternal priest and, at the same time, he reflects upon the shortcomings of the formation to the priesthood to meet its rigorous obligations, whilst reflecting on its dangers failing to fulfil the demands of our modern world and other social issues which are eroding the Christian values found in our civilisation. In these pages, he covers a wide range of critical topics, including racism and anti-racism, colonialism and the abolition of God in the human condition.

Written with a personable tone, intellectual and spiritual insight, Note from Solitude: Childhood, dreams and Reflections emphasises the sense of obligation essential to our world today.