With this gun, I thee wed

"...an account of landmark events in the history of a nation. Through the eyes of Babs Soares, the novel traces the trajectory of a fictionalized African country from independence, focusing on its turbulent political terrain and the impact of the political drama on the lives of the citizens of the fictional Dukyaria Union. The protagonist of the novel, Scares, was brought up to be open-minded but he encounters bigotry at every turn; Ahmad, who starts as a liberal detribalized Kasar, becomes rabidly anti-Ndi following his minister-father's fall from grace; and Livinus, an Ndi who is ready to lay down his life defending a Kasar, finds himself and his Ndi kinsfolk victims of ethnic massacre after the first military coup."--back cover.