Anwei and her beau Jason start life in a Cameroonian village whose peaceful rhythm is shattered in a massacre by a marauding squad of Biaffran soldiers.
Escaping to the big city of Douala, an encounter with an English expatriate manager leaves her with a challenging surprise.
By a turn of fate her son and an apartheid racist become partners in a quest for valuable minerals on land belonging to Anwei in war-torn Democratic Republic Of Congo.
Other members of the group include a Catholic missionary escaping child abuse in Ireland, a redneck ship's captain from Texas, a naïve Australian female journalist, some Cape Coloured fishermen, and a colony of lepers.
Brimming with emotional encounters and violent conflicts, this African story is a truly exotic human experience. This book describes resilient people battling circumstances in tough alien environments to help others, to enrich themselves, and at times, to simply survive on the edge.