Things don’t go quite as he planned Musa is implicated in a military coup and eliminated, and Nafisah somehow finds herself living with Officer Edward (Eddy), an officer, scholar and gentleman. Things soon heat up, Nafisah is abducted by Musa, a most despicable and murderous military officer who, enraged that her dad would not repay a debt, slaughters everyone except Nafisah, and takes off with her, ostensibly to make her his mistress. Things are dire, her father is ailing, there is no money, she is illiterate and there doesn’t seem to be any other pastime other than living wretchedly and waiting to die.
Nafisah, the chief protagonist, lives in near penury with her family. General Sani Abacha rules the nation with several iron fists, there is fear and lawlessness in the land as people are killed for flimsy reasons.
So, what is The Officer’s Bride all about? The setting is Nigeria in the mid- to late-nineties. The writers of my generation were mostly male brooding gods of letters too pre-occupied with social issues to worry about romance and sex. Chalk that up to my warped upbringing I was fed a steady diet of “serious literature”, groaning with heavy burdens. I generally restrict myself to reading mainstream fiction, preferring for the romance to creep into my subconscious as part of a story, not as the story. What do I think? I must confess that I am not a fan of romance literature. The other day I read Lara Daniels’ romance novella, The Officer’s Bride.
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