Newton I. Aduaka

The boisterous and cheerful lives of the residents of Cameroon are barely dented by incursions of supernatural power in this humor-filled rendition of traditional folk tales in modern guise. In the story, a cheerfully naughty girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into a young man. She then becomes one of the boy suitors for the amorous attentions of a policeman's daughter. Some of the men have unusual names and even odder magical gifts: one of them has the ability to make a man's genitals disappear when he shakes hands with him.

Ezra is kidnapped as a boy by a rebel group and has to testify later about the brutal experience of becoming a child soldier.

Court’s girlfriend Lorna is addicted to drugs. He is desperate to get her off them, but a secret from his past threatens to drive them both over the edge.