Ralph was in awe of his father for his traditional leadership and the pomp and the pageantry that was part and parcel of the package of Chieftaincy. He lives a semi-royal life as the townspeople doted on him for being one of the chief's sons. But the package also included other elements of a traditional leader of the town - the fetish priests, the shines and lesser gods. Ralph was in awe of his mother, the Christian woman whose father was blinded in one eye by a falling mortar as he volunteered his masonry services in the construction of a church. Ralph's parents married long before his...