Dorcas Keurl onan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, S gu n'Di, and enters into an extramarital affair with him. In her professional work, she discovers deposits of minerals of inestimable worth. Reading the current age of globalization and neoliberalism as one in which the riches of Africa are again being cynically exploited by multinational companies--including her...