The Minister Primarily

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From John Oliver Killens, the godfather of the Black Arts Movement, comes a masterpiece at last published more than thirty years after his death. Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington, DC; Vietnam; London: and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to "find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa, recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil with the discovery of cobanium--a radioactivemineral 500times more powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action." When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, JImmy Jay--a dead ringer for the Prime Minister--is enlisted in a counter-scheme to foil the would-be coup. he will travel to Am,America with half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with the US President and address the UN General Assembly, while the rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant, and defiantly politically incorrect novel is a literary delight--and another gift from an American literary legend. -- From dust jacket