Tajeer and his overseas investor friends, in their search for oil, have reduced Lake Riziki to a mass of black slime and ruined the livelihoods of the many who depended on it. Now Tajeer is mowing down entire forests and choking life-giving streams to clear land for a multi-million shilling project. Things begin to go haywire when he attempts to evict Kibichi and his family from their ancestral land. Kijani, a fiery daughter of the family, will not let this happen without a fight.
With a veteran's awesome mastery of language and dramatic technique, the author gives a rare poetic fusion of his passionate commitment to his dual subject matter: the environment and the courage of a 'fierce, fearless, fiery fighter for all that is green and fresh and full of life'
Austin Bukenya is one of East Africa's literary giants. A dramatist, novelist, poet and eminent critic, he has taught language, literature and theatre arts at universities in Tanzania, Scotland, Germany, Kenya and Uganda. He was Director of the Performing and Creative Arts Centre at Kenyatta University in the mid-1990s, and was a founder member of the Department of Music, Dance and Drama at Makerere University in the early 1970s.