When Soji, an ambitious young man, wins a scholarship to uni-fasi-ty in the big city, he doesn't think twice about turning his back on the parents who raised him or the community that nurtured him, rejecting the customs and ways of his people for a Westernised existence and a life in politics. Offending his sponsors, rejecting the fiancee chosen for him at birth and moving with an increasingly dubious crowd, it takes tragedy and illness to bring Soji to his senses and finally accept his past, which enables him to embrace his future... Gbenga Odubiyi was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1976. He...

Since I was a teenager I've had this belief that I will not last on the fragile dunes I walk everyday. This thought was not only mine but also shared by my family, especially my father, Papa, who doted on me with such attention, as if I were an egg hanging on a lean branch of guava tree. My life's like a computer in a jet age. It was while contemplating such thoughts that I climbed Mount Sinai. To understand me, let all souls on earth and in the air take a flight into the wilderness so they may break into crystals over the hills of the past for their spirits to walk the path to the future and...