This novel is set during the Atlantic Slaving War, a period refered to by Europeans as The Enlightenment. Told from the viewpoint of a group of young initiates,Two Thousand Seasonsfollows the eleven women and nine men as they get tricked and sold into slavery by a collaborator king. During the Atlantic crossing they organize a shipboard revolt, then return to the wasted continent to begin their lifework: finding ways to stop the destruction of life, to retrieve a society built on life-giving values. Ayi Kwei Armah is an award winning writer from Popenguine, Senegal.