I hope that you can be trusted to handle a transaction of this magnitude." The feelings that such unsolicited e-mails provoke - impatience, scorn, amusement - make most of us click the delete button daily. Upon my quest for a trusted and reliable foreign business man or company, I was given your contact by the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.įrom The Washington Post's Book World/ Reviewed by Chris Cleave "Dear Friend, I do not come to you by chance. But can he do it without being drawn into this outlandish milieu? It is up to Kingsley now, to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, to fully assume his role of first son. With Cash Daddy's intervention, Kingsley and his family can be as safe as a tortoise under its shell. He is also rumoured to run a successful empire of email scams. In desperation he turns to his uncle, Boniface-aka Cash Daddy-an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket.
But when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in his country, but it is money that does the talking. For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. But times are hard in Nigeria and jobs are not easy to come by. Being the opara of the family, he is entitled to certain privileges - a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation. "This is a fast, fresh, often hilarious first novel, by one of the remarkably talented young African writers who are rapidly making everyone else look stale" The Times Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams.
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