The story traces the life of an African in the West African British
colony, from village childhood to overseas college in the UK and back to
political life in Africa. While in the UK he falls in love with a white
South African who gets run down by her racist ex-fiancee. After a
successful career as the prime minister of his newly-independent country
he goes to South Africa to avenge the death of his ex-love, only to
realize that he could only show pity and not rage at the last moment.
It
is a story of contemporary African life in the first half of the
twentieth Century—the clash between Western and African cultures, the
milking of African colonies, the anti-apartheid struggle, the sharp
contrasts of wealth and poverty in new African republics, dirty
politics, the pan-African movement, and so on. The ending was rather too
sudden and unexpected, considering the previous details concerning the
hero’s trip to South Africa.
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