In this last section of reading, I was relieved to find out the ending was comforting, as I had predicted. What happened was that as the Nigerian government was attempting to persuade the English, of Mr. Solaja's supposed murder of his own wife, the media interviewed Sade and Femi. It was then that Sade and Femi told them the whole truth about the situation and after an aricle was published and their interview aired on T.V. their father was released from prison and they were reunited with him.
One theme that was most definetly present in this novel, is the importance of getting the truth across and standing up for it. This was taught to Sade and Femi for their father, who wrote articles about the wrong doings of the Nigerian government. It was this lesson that saved their father from being deported back to Nigeria, where he would have been killed. Sade and Femi were able to get the truth across to the English media, which was even aired on T.V. Not only did that free their father, but it also alerted the world about the atrocities committed by the Nigerian government.
I thought Beverly Naidoo did a great job writng this book and I would thus give this book a rating of 4.5 out of 5. This is due to the fact that it was a quick read and she did a great job of getting all her points across and told about the struggles of a Nigerian family to stand of for what is right, in a fascinating manner that made you want to keep reading on and on.
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