Description

Armah’s seventh novel plunges into history as the narrator Lindela translates secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As her work progresses, old questions animate her own urgent search for knowledge of self and society. Through her story, Armah asks how Africa’s multimillenial history can be best understood, and why did the society that invented literacy, sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion.