This is the story of the life of Abudu Olwit, and of Teboke, the village where he is born and raised. In Teboke, two Indians build a cotton ginnery, and recruit workers from Sudan and the Congo to operate the ginnery, employing a white boss to discipline the immigrants. Abudu returns to the village and all its problems, resolving to engage in politics. But he discovers that politics in inseparable from violence.