Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first - poor, working-class and ill-educated - is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance. The middle-class pair become victims of the same brutal violence that the poor and powerless suffer.



Two couples live under the same repressive regime, yet their lives seem poles apart. A compelling study of growing political awareness. ‘Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.’ New Internationalist