Charles Shemu Joyah

A teen-aged nanny is impregnated by her employer, who pays for her education to keep her quiet.

A fisherman on Lake Malawi has his cultural values threatened by modernization and the expanding tourist industry, while his beautiful third wife is torn between loyalty to her husband and the endless sexual overtures by a white tourist. The story develops into a cultural clash between traditional African values and modernisation.

Exploited by men and ridiculed by the world, two prostitutes find hope in each other as they search for the road to redemption.