Memory Of Stone

A struggling, UK-based Nigerian is overwhelmed by the demands of his family back home, and a recent returnee is dazed by his country’s veneration of non-black foreigners. An innocent man jailed and tortured by the Abacha regime is forced to sit and watch a football match with his tormentors, while another man breaks free from his high-flying family’s emasculating expectations. A female bank marketer succumbs to the pressures of the job, and an orphaned teenage girl is sexually abused by an uncle. A government minister visits his home state in a motorcade of dozens of exotic vehicles, wrecking lives in the process; while a second-hand car, dumped by a frustrated European student, travels across the seas to meet a grateful Nigerian professor…

In Fresh Air, we encounter an assortment of contemporary Nigerians characters, whose experiences and eccentricities are woven together with strings of wit.