Rebel (African Writers Series)

'Rebel' is an allegorical novel of great excitement about the conflict of old and new ideas. The people of Pachanga, isolated and unknown on an island off the coast of Africa, face extinction form starvation. Ngurumo, the hero, engages in a hazardous fight for leadership with the conservative fetish priest, encouraging his people to disregard superstition and till their crops on forbidden land.

Softcover. English. Heinemann. 1980. ISBN: 9780435900595. 160 pp. Fair. Book No: 2505345