The Devil in God’s Land

This is a Drama based on contemporary political realities in some
African countries, which arrived at liberation through armed struggle.
Eritrea (God’s land, according to the ancient Egyptians) is an example
of a country and society in convulsion because of the abandonment by its
leadership, particularly among the ex-combatants, of the lofty
principles of democracy, serving the people, equality and solidarity:
aspirations that characterized the rhetoric of the revolution. The
incidences and personalities in it are, however, purely fictitious
although similarities are bound to exist since the principles during the
wars of liberation and the abuses thereafter tend to be the same in all
undemocratic countries. Poetic license has been used to draw characters
from the army, students, political dissidents and political
opportunists, the Catholic Church and a nun who escapes rape but is
martyred in the process of resistance.

This is a drama with elements of
suspense, farce, comedy and tragedy, woven in a way that will not fail
to move the reader in and outside Eritrea by the in depth understanding
of the inside workings and “intelligence” of a contemporary African
dictatorship.