Set in Nigeria in 1975. When their Delta homeland is threatened, two journalists join forces in a project which brings them into tragic contact with security forces and dissidents alike.
Nigerian novelist and critic, born in Abraka in midwestern Nigeria, educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Denver, Colorado.
He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and Binghamton University (since 1991). In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Afro-American and African Studies at Binghampton University, New York.