A Black couple, Bernadette and Melvin, flee to Ghana from Jim Crow American after a bad thing happens. Melvin had gone to college with President Kwame Nkrumah and is counting on him for help. Whelp, Nkrumah is busy surviving coup attempts, so that doesn't go as planned. Nothing does, really, not even with their highlife musician friend. 

I don't know what to make of this book. I loved the last book I read that was this dire, but somehow this one was less compelling?