![]() ![]() ![]() But just as the meeting concludes, Konga, the village madman, bursts in. The company’s representatives say they’re doing everything they can, though their audience knows it’s a lie - Pexton has the support of the village head as well as the country’s dictator and, with it, impunity. ![]() The residents of Kosawa want the company gone and the land restored to what it was before Pexton showed up, decades ago. Nearby, the company’s oil pipelines and drilling sites have left the fields fallow and the water poisoned. A kind of moral claustrophobia hangs over the opening pages of Imbolo Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating second novel, “How Beautiful We Were.” In October of 1980, in the fictional African village of Kosawa, representatives of an American oil company called Pexton have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying.
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