
'Put your money on this sheepskin, ' said the old man, 'and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected.' Follow this tale of love, desire and vengeance as told by Africa's renowned author Cyprian Ekwensi.


A story of desire and vengeance, this book starts with the longing of a wealthy man called Shehu for a child of his own and continues with the obsessive search by Abu Bakir for revenge on Shehu for luring away the woman he was to marry. It ends with the murder of Shehu by...

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