Lightseekers
Femi Kayode | Nigeria
Three young men are brutally murdered by a mob in a small town in Nigeria, in an act of vigilante justice for a string of robberies that have exhausted the community.
Dr. Philip Taiwo, a clinical psychologist whose expertise is mob violence, is hired by the father of one of the victims to find out who killed his son and why. But cultural, societal and legal hindrances hamper his investigation.
Okriki is a small tight knit community that shuns outsiders. For years the community’s relationship with the students at the local university has been frayed due to robberies that has frustrated business owners. Coupled with the fact that the school mostly enrolls students from outside Okriki, there’s a volatile undercurrent brewing.
But all of this still doesn’t quite explain why the community committed such a violent act. A strange animosity is brewing between Muslims and Christians in Okriki; but understanding the connection between this and the murders will test Philip’s professional limits and possibly endanger his life.
Lightseekers is a complex narrative of parental grief, community distrust, expat reintegration, sinister shadow characters and legal intrigue. Parallel to the storyline is an interesting cultural perspective on fraternities, considered cults in this narrative. Overall it’s an immersive page-turner with a main character that will grow on you.
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