Chaff on the wind by Ebou Dibba

A vivid portrait of rural Gambian life in the 1930s, tracing the hopes and hardships of ordinary people on the eve of World War II. Set in groundnut farming communities along the River Gambia in the 1930s, the novel follows a cast of villagers navigating the slow intrusion of colonial administration, changing agricultural economics, and the distant rumble of a war that will eventually pull young men away from their families. Dibba's great achievement is making these people specific and fully human, grounding political portrait in the texture of daily life, the rhythms of the farming season, and the weight of local gossip. Called by critics 'the Gambia's truly first national novel' and a 'tenderly written portrait of a time and place hardly ever represented in African literature.'

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