Chronicles From The Land of The Happiest People On Earth by Wole Soyinka

This is an uncomfortable book to read. It goes beyond satire to a place that is almost on par with Dante's inferno. I read that the author renounced his United States citizenship after the 2016 election, when an openly racist, xenophobic misogynist was elected to the highest office, and he may as a result feel a bit stateless. The book tells the multidimensional story of a secret society dealing in human parts for sacrificial uses, whose members encompass the highest political and religious figures in the land. It details how the conspiracy and cover-up of this quasi-organization affect not only the life of the nation but, more specifically, the lives of four friends. This is essentially a whistleblower’s book. It is a novel that explodes criminal racketeering of a sinister and deadly kind that is operating in an African nation uncomfortably similar to Nigeria. It is a vivid and wild romp through a political landscape riddled with corruption and opportunism and a spiritual landscape riddled with fraudulence and, even more disquietingly, state-sanctioned murder. It is a difficult read that will leave you thinking for days if not more.