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Master of the absurd Anoho Nimus lays bare the existential condition of post-colonial Africa, where, "Nothing was too complicated, or too simple. There was fire and order, blood and dance, anger and harmony." The narrative voice here is at once unique and indebted—to Camus, to Achebe, and, one suspects, to the very people who inspire characters like Mama, a gun-toting marketwoman and fierce force of nature who, when her son is captured by the maw of revolution, is bereaved and redeemed in one fell swoop.