Ozoemena arrives in Zamfu for field work on causes of incessant killings in the Northern Nigeria, dripping with paranoia. But meeting Zaynab changes everything. The struggle to douse the deadly ethnic and religious supremacy battle that has engulfed their country unites them. But their affinity soon leads to a whirlwind of love in a world where love or friendship between men and women, unless connubial, is strongly prohibited to pose threats to lives and to the future, causing him to flee to his homeland down south to start all over again, where his past and present love lives will soon come into collision.
The Alien Citizen is a story of injustice and alienation, victimization and struggle, hate and love, and loss.