Paul Okunbor

The novel depicts a confluence of, mostly uncontrollable, events in the life of Obi Okonkwo, a young man with a London university education in a newly independent Nigeria. Though he started out with an idealism to resist bribery and corruption, he eventually succumbed to them as his financial situation worsened with time. He was also perceived as having fallen short of expectations as a role model by his traditional Igbo clansmen, who sponsored his university education. The death of his mother and the stifled romance with a societal outcast lady were just too much tumult in the life of a young man.