Partitioned into Books One and Two, encompassing the twelve most prominent ancestors/divinity-philosophers in Yoruba land, The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat, is a literary memoir, capturing the Author's literary and philosophical journey from his years of innocence to the years when he could discern mortality from immortality, when the promise of pen is now inviting him to belong to the league/class of the sciences and the humanities, regaling on the calm strength of love, wisdom, understanding and knowledge.