The Dreamer and the OracleIn The Oracle the author explores individual flagellations within a far
wider dimension of cosmic interdependency. It also evokes Gamji motifs
as the religious and political mindlessness which impoverish the African
landscape. Dedicated to Chinua Achebe The Oracle honours a shamanistic
teacher and story teller who, with his spiritual double helps to
liberate the protagonist from an insidious mind control programme by and
evil intelligence that bestrides humanity through several ages of chaos |
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