A Sprint into the Past

A sprint into the past… is a contemporary story about the presumed joys, but actual pains, of living in the immediate post-colonial African societies, as seen in a child’s eyes; told in a child’s oral theatrics and experienced in the innocence of a child’s limitation of realities and imaginations. The author shares his thrills, fears and anxieties experienced by most of the children born in the sixties at a time when most of the country folk were just beginning to get exposed to modern living…..one could say the era of discoveries and exposure to a fast changing world. In a no holds barred way, he delves into the frailties, hilarious experiences, assumed and actual courage and tactical avoidance and withdrawal from situations that spell disaster inherent in the characters he has attempted to create and prop over the entire course of the the book.
The author examines how the great hopes and aspirations of the people of Africa for a better tomorrow were broken by ‘marauding vultures’ that descended into the political scene upon independence, leading to challenges that most African nations have had to grapple with; like poverty, landlessness and the squatter problem, poor infrastructure, hunger, frustration and fruitless toil. Did Capitalism conspire with fate to replace the White Settler with neo-colonialists and cause all this pain to the people?