When her white, former colonial administrator father, James dies in Nigeria in 2005, Elizabeth is alarmed as family secrets come tumbling loose. In Manchester, her black Nigerian mother is poised between grief and good riddance. In a freefall of remembered glory, she tells Elizabeth how she danced in a Manchester kitchen-cafe with Kwame Nkrumah, hero of the African independence movement and spills truths not only on family tensions but also on the role of women in the Pan African Congress that took place in Manchester in 1945.
