Full Description
Sold Kin is the first struggling epopee coming from the
creativity of this Ibeku Man born in the southern part of Nigeria. This
is a story of a group of men and women who try to redeem themselves from
an unfair system of exploitation, where human beings were treated less
than objects during the Atlantic slave trade. It is also the story of
courageous women who overcome stereotypes: the white woman who rebels
against the system that her father feeds, and the native protagonist,
Adanna, who emerges proudly above her male peers, as if to announce the
necessary decline of an anachronistic system and hope for gender
equality. She is a leader who fights for her people and reveals a soul
beneath her warrior and combative soul, just as so sweet and maternal
when she takes care of a young boy left alone. Characters belonging to a
universe and a system of values far from Western patterns appear in
this fresco of an unwritten story, but narrated through tradition, where
witchcraft, magic and the use of occult powers base their cosmology. It
is impossible not to connect with the Herbalist, a man dedicated to his
people, gifted with exceptional charisma, whose destiny will intersect
with that of Adanna. Family bonds are sometimes stronger than any
alliance and the struggle to make justice triumph and subvert an unjust
system comes to the fore.
