Uncover the Sun

This riveting story captures the social dislocations that turn Ojadi, a brilliant high-school sports star, into an unrelenting social activist implacably at war with the oppressive social system of his time – symbolized in Chief Obidi, crafty politician and businessman, and in the country’s opportunistic military rulers. This penetrative novel, in which thrilling characters and conflicting worldviews jostle for supremacy, vividly recreates defining features of the socio-political milieu of the late 20th century in a sub-Saharan African country.

The bifurcated plot and sequences of Uncover the Sun heighten the stakes at both public and personal levels. Deploying unexpected, though delightful, twists of plot, the author excellently delivers to the reader a moving story in which the lust for power and wealth, and the conflicts it provokes, runs concomitantly with romantic love while raising fundamental questions that tug at the heart of the human condition. Duve Nakolisa’s keen eye for detail, in-depth probe of his characters’ motives, ingenious story-telling skill and gifted use of language couple with his injection of entertainment and wit into the execution of his novel’s universally apprehensible conflicts to make this an enjoyable and timeless story. No. of pages: 341.