Sarah Anyang Agbor, Senior Lecturer of Literature, University of Yaounde I

“The Bad Samaritan is a testament that Alobwed’Epie is a writer of extraordinary gifts. The novel is a realistic social fiction that depicts the realities of the Ewawa nation, a microcosm of many African Post Independence nations. Esole the protagonist – a onetime professor turned politician – refuses to join the debauchery of political elites and declines to compromise on his principles of what is right. The challenges to his uprightness are overwhelming, but his example is edifying to the agonising victims of the deaf and brutal system in place.”