In You Must Set Forth at Dawn, the path of memory winds through the ravaged landscapes of postcolonial Nigeria—where poetry meets politics, exile mirrors return, and the personal collides with the historical. With searing clarity and lyrical defiance, the narrator recounts a life lived in pursuit of justice, meaning, and home, even as the sun often rises on betrayal and disillusionment. How does one carry both the fire of resistance and the ache of memory without being consumed? This is a memoir of conscience, haunted by the weight of dreams and anchored by a relentless moral clarity. To read it is to walk alongside a soul who dares to keep setting forth, no matter how dark the night.

• Originally Published: 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2007
• Genre: Memoir
• Pages: 528
• Book Type: Hardcopy
• ISBN: 978-0375755149
• Access: Members