God was African

When Kendem a varsity instructor returns to his native Lewoh countryside where he spent his childhood he is seeking relief from the complexity of human civilization after attending the Fulbright Institute in the United States. Instead he is confronted with two seething issues: how to reveal to his sick and troubled mother the situation in which he finds his elder brother the successor of Mbe Tanju-Ngong's household who travelled to the United States many years before and had never returned and the dispute over Fuo Beyano's funeral which is tearing the land apart whether the deceased village chief should be given a Christian burial or he should according to the age-old tradition of Lewoh people go through a ritual to enable him return and continue ruling his people.