The African American saga in the land of Uncle Sam is a tale of drama replete with conflict and struggle, at the physical, spiritual, and psychological level, as individually and collectively experienced by Africans in America. Preoccupations and concern with identity issues have been a driving force in spurring many black American leaders and intellectuals, such as Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, to espouse the uniqueness of the American Negro's dual identity and inheritance, an inescapable product of their African ancestral heritage and American experience. Addressing this psychological and genetic dualism encoded within the African-American, Dr. Dubois once asserted and concluded that it was indeed possible to 'wear both hats': that of Africa, and that of America. However, coming to terms with this double consciousness requires a gradual process of unlearning and deconstruction that engages the individual self. In the beginning pages of this book, the author sets the tone to what appears to be a journey of self-discovery, once he sets foot in Africa. He (the protagonist) goes through great length depicting the inner psychological struggle raging from within himself as his prior mis-education and mental programming that schools and the western social media had deceitfully projected, collides headlong with the reality of Africa, a continent on uphill mobility. Paradoxically, unlike the Tarzan image depicted by Hollywood, Lit gradually comes to grips with the depth of western deception as his African adventure unfolds. This progressive realization of the misrepresentation of the true African identity and heritage was central to the internal conflict that was raging in the innermost confines of the narrator's mind. He was now an eye-witness and 'real-time' observer of the beauty and majesty of the Motherland. Undoubtedly, this mental re-examination was not only an eye opener, but more importantly, it helped expose lies and dispel misconceptions and the distorted image about the Continent as a wasteland still entrenched in backwardness

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