Product Description

This is a story of a young African intellectual who returns home from the West, filled with high hopes of setting an example of excellence for his colleagues in the university community. Soon enough, however, he encounters insurmountable opposition from the corrupt core that has transformed the citadel of learning into a den of sham and shallowness.
The main character’s challenge is how to stand tall in his quest for dignity and success. His personal life does not make the task easier. His well-heeled, middle-class wife, a professional in her own right, is caught in her own world of deceit and self-gratification, in the company of the masters of the system. For his part, the man goes searching for solace in the arms of a student beauty whom he calls his Amazon
In a caustic language full of scathing satire and harsh humor. Ojo-Ade paints a tragic picture of academe. The novelist’s use of dialogue is most interesting and thought provoking. This as well as the detailed dramatic descriptions of individuals and event makes Dead End an impressive narrative on the realities of the vaunted Ivory Tower which can be as crude and crass as the envious outside community.
As the hero struggles for promotion to a professorship, the apogee of every university teacher’s career, he becomes ever more desperate and depressed as he slides down towards the dead end of living death.

188 pages
Paperback Binding
College Press & Publishers Ltd.
Published 2001

ISBN 9789782194169Binding Paperback