Description

Tale of Two Ghosts is an experimental novel that places all the heroes and some villains of the world in heaven to engage one another on the drastic changes happening beneath their feet. The novel recreates the 16th President of America, Abraham Lincoln, and Statesman and the 1st Premier for West African Region in Nigeria, Obafemi Awolowo, as fluid characters who travel to their beloved countries together after so many decades of their demise. they discover an unfamiliar boisterous cosmopolitan landscape but also come to close to cultural shifts, upturned legacies, social, political and moral decadence. The novel tries to fuse Magic Realism to the journeying motif of the John Buyan Christian storytelling tradition. it thrives on anecdotes and extended narrative metaphors that depict the corruption of the world.