Growing up, in the 1960s Nigeria, was idyllic. Young Nigerians, who
made the fashionable choice "to seek the golden fleece" by pursuing
tertiary education in Europe, met with what they had not bargained
for. In their late teens and armed only with a highly romanticised
but dated English grammar school education and Christian manners,
they discovered that Europe was not what they had been made to
believe - racism, new moralities and a harsh technological culture
they could not have imagined. Most of them went back to Nigeria,
which had just ended a three year civil war, after their studies
and sobering experiences, in the hope and belief that they would
use what they learnerd in Europe to develop the country. The
country they came back to, as adults, was a very different country
from the one they left, as teenagers. This book is a poetic
commentary on the experiences of one person before, during and
after this sojourn in Europe.
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