Afamefuna Onochie Nwaku, a Harvard-trained medical doctor with a career most can only dream of, receives a telephone call from his sister who lives in Nigeria that her life is being threatened. Afam leaves behind his family, throwing his marriage into turmoil and risking the life he has built in Boston. When he arrives in Nigeria he expects to find the country he loves, that he needs, waiting for him. Instead, he finds a land and people he barely recognizes. Afam decides to stay but realizes that his future in Nigeria is as murky as the River Niger after a torrential tropical rainfall. Read more
