If anyone can find out what led to the mobbing and burning to death of three undergraduates, you’re the one. “It would’ve been nice if my wife had said instead: ‘Go, Sweets. Even his wife, Folake, a lawyer, has no faith in him. He takes on the case, but soon finds himself out of his depth when he arrives in the town of Okriki and begins delving into the secrets of a community that is desperate for him to leave. Taiwo has been back in Nigeria for only eight months, having spent most of his adult life in the US. “By the time tyres are thrown over their heads like oversized necklaces, and the smell of petrol wafts so strong that some in the crowd cover their noses, madness has staked its claim on what is left of the day.” More than a year later, the father of one of the boys, looking for answers, contacts investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo, who specialises in “studying the motives behind crimes and how they are committed”. Three students are accused of robbery and then murdered in a Nigerian university town, their deaths captured on camera and replayed endlessly on social media. Femi Kayode’s debut opens with a truly horrific mob killing.
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