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Justice Faruck

Justice Faruck writes from the knowledge that silence is never empty. In his work, it carries consequences, sheltering reputation while bruising lives, passing for peace while becoming a private sentence. He is drawn to the places where harm is made ordinary, the polite room, the sacred excuse, the community shrug. What interests him is not only what happened, but what people do afterward, how they rearrange their voices and keep living inside what they were told not to name.

This is why his storytelling attends closely to the moment a life shifts from endurance to testimony. He writes toward thresholds, the first time a truth is admitted, the first time a system is challenged, the first time a survivor realizes survival is not freedom. His characters inhabit the emotional architecture of Northern Nigeria, the cadences of faith and family, the weight of tradition, the intimacy of community, and he lets language carry that world in full texture, allowing Hausa, Arabic phrases, and Nigerian Pidgin to sit naturally alongside English, not as decoration but as lived reality.

His philosophy is tender and uncompromising. Tell the truth as it arrives, in fragments and contradictions, in the long aftermath. Let justice be complicated. Let love exist beside resentment. He writes with an ear for what people do when trying not to be seen, how they soften a sentence, laugh at the wrong time, swallow what would change everything. Resilience in his work is not a slogan but a daily practice.

His debut novel, The Loud Silence Between Us, embodies this sensibility, insisting that what is whispered in private shapes what a society can face in public. Beyond the page, he extends the same commitment through the Loud Silence Foundation, oriented around breaking silence and restoring hope. Whether writing or building, his aim stays constant, to make room for stories trained to disappear, and to return voice to those who carried them alone.