Benin City, 1969 Osime Iycre is a journalist who knows about the horrors of civil war. Or so he thinks. When he witnesses the cowardly execution of his girlfriend's father he comes to realize that the vicious and less righteous than he had thought.
Festud Iyayi is one of the pioneers of social realism in the African novel. His first novel, violence, was a searing indictment of social conditions in the modern city and is generally regarded as one of the most radical works of contemporary African Fiction.
Benin City, 1969 Osime Iycre is a journalist who knows about the horrors of civil war. Or so he thinks. When he witnesses the cowardly execution of his girlfriend's father he comes to realize that the vicious and less righteous than he had thought.
Festud Iyayi is one of the pioneers of social realism in the African novel. His first novel, violence, was a searing indictment of social conditions in the modern city and is generally regarded as one of the most radical works of contemporary African Fiction.