Description

This engrossing saga is a creation of old times in a town in Eastern Nigeria. It takes the reader on a sensational sequence of journeys, sometimes allegorical, sometimes picturesque, into the hearts and families in this close-knit four village community. The narrative is against a panorama of the early 1900s, when British colonial administrators prowled the hinterland of Umugo, plundering and maiming and killing at every turn in an unbelievable orgy of savagery in the name of pacification and subjugation. It is an epic that adds a new dimension to contemporary Nigerian fiction, so moving , so filled with true pathos and real people, so individual in vision, so vigorous in ideas and swift in style that is simply unputdownable till the very end.