DAUGHTERS OF THE LAST CALM

What happens when a community encounters a deadly illness before it understands what it is?

In the villages of Ikot Ukut and Obot Mbong, fear spreads faster than knowledge. Rumour becomes suspicion. Suspicion becomes blame. And an old grievance between two communities finds a new reason to burn.

Years later, Akon tells her granddaughters the story of Nseyen, the young woman whose death became entangled with illness, stigma, love, grief and violence.

DAUGHTERS OF THE LAST CALM is a haunting African literary novella about memory, cultural identity, silence, human fear and the devastating consequences of blaming others for what we do not understand.

A story of a sickness. A story of two villages. And a story about what happens when an old wound finally opens.