The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
Cheney-Coker, Syl Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer.
A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed in overthrowing the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man take...