Exile laid bare the lives of listless teenage expats in Tanzania; Revolution shifts the focus to the African and Indian Tanzanians they live amongst . . . Moses, a worker in a lethal Tanzanite mine, who risks life and limb every day in the hope of striking it rich; Rachel, who leaves her village to seek her fortune, but is regarded in the city as just another whore-in-waiting; Shakila, who manages to escape to the States, but not from racial prejudice. This is their reality – drowning in corruption, the need to graft and scrap, selling their morals and their bodies as needs be. The Africa Trilogy is at once epic and minutely human, because Ejersbo never fails to show compassion for his characters: however corrupted or morally blemished they may become, they are worth a better life.