City of Memories by Richard Ali

City of Memories is a love story set in northern Nigeria in which Frauk, Rahila, Colonel Dibarama and Eunice Pam negotiate the traumas of their chequered pasts. Towering above them is the story of Ummi al-Qassim, a princess of Bolewa, and the disaster that attended her love -first for a nobleman and then for a poet. All are bracketed by the modern city of Jos in Central Nigeria, and Bolewa in Nigeria's volatile northeast, when politics and parental love become motives for a new round of social crisis.