Signs of the hartmattan

By Chibuzo N. Obimdike

Subjects: Igbo (African people) in literature, Nigerian fiction (English)

Description: Employing the first person point of view through a boy's voice, a tragic story is hewn out of the hard word of family tensions and attendant secret lusts. Signs of the harmattan comes across as a consciously plotted novel. The high libido in Augustine Uzodike appears in his son, Okechukwu, and in Ngozi, his housemaid (and covenant daughter; a secret fact only he knows). What an expertly connected genetic show!