Mourning

<p>Weaving factual and fictional stories about the lives of his loved ones and those he looks to for strength Dokubo Melford Goodhead's <em>Mourning </em>is a meditation on the magnitude of loss. Powerful raw and elegiac Goodhead's collection is also a commentary on the plight of the Ijaw island people of the oil archipelago of the Niger Delta region of post-colonial Nigeria where the country gets almost all of its revenue through the mining of oil and gas. Doubling as memoir and poetic exploration <em>Mourning </em>sets its sights on nothing less than the human soul and what we must do to protect it.</p>