The Last Poor Coker

Jide Coker has grown up hearing what education can do for a person. But the life around him leaves him with a question he cannot put aside: why has it not done more for his family?

His father still believes better days are coming. Jide wants to believe him. Yet as the pressures at home grow, he begins to wonder what it will take to build a different life - and what he might lose trying.

Set in Lagos, The Last Poor Coker draws you into a family's private hopes, disappointments and difficult choices. How do you escape a family pattern without turning your back on the people you love?