The Sunbird

The travails of day-to-day existence notwithstanding Scolastica is an ordinary woman in Tobeningo who has struggled to carve a fairly successful life for herself. She is not a novice when it comes to putting out fires thanks to a bubbling teenage daughter a sugar-daddy chairman of the local Native Authority and the sudden re-appearance of a former sweetheart. But when her son sets out to commemorate his father's passing on a false alarm it is her life skills and sense of purpose that are tested to the limit. As the sole privy to the true situation she is in a race against time to avert a calamity from befalling her son and her people. In her path besides the vicissitudes of daily living are the high-handedness and ineptitude of local politics as well as the straightjacket and mysticism of both religion and tradition. How will she fare?