By Manu F. Manun'Ebo

lower than the Umbrella is an engaging debut novel weaving pleasant humour into it seems that light-hearted moments of maximum violence. It portrays a legendary state wounded via the cruelties of dictatorship in post-colonial Africa. The humanity, the gentleness and optimism of the writing take the reader via ‘real Africa’, rather than the one-dimensional portrayals frequently obvious in mainstream media. right here comes the get together of a contemporary metaphorical story focusing not just at the colonialism legacy but additionally, if now not typically, at the truth of the post-colonial Africa in all its complexity as noticeable via an African eye. the story brings desire in the course of the actual info of the panorama: a postcard from the next day to come sub-Saharan Africa.
The tale opens while eight-year-old Felix is scheduled to satisfy his death grand-father to obtain a mystical drum and examine a creed that may support him commune along with his ancestors via animals, birds, bugs and reptiles appearing as his publications in his noble challenge to revive an historical country. yet a sighting of the fogeys of the country’s president attempting to acquire grains of sand from the ancestral burial flooring and their next loss of life there are obvious as a probability to Christianity, which urges the neighborhood priest to prevent the move of powers to Felix in any respect charges. The boy is embarked on a survival conflict, a conflict not just for the recovery of the conventional rule but in addition for the total future of the folks of the Republic of Boriade. As he grows up, he needs to triumph over either the Church and the harsh regime in position. A reader who received throughout the e-book in sittings stated: ‘There is rather a lot worth during this multi-dimensional, multi-cultural novel from sub-Saharan Africa. The depiction of the legendary atmosphere consists of its wealthy characters alongside the tale with absolute authenticity.’

About the writer: Manu F. Manun’Ebo is a playwright, level director and actor born within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the place he ran an area theatre in Kikwit. He lives in England because 1990.

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