A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice 2019. The Year of the Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America, and Ghana has opened its doors for Black diasporans to come to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides; Kobby, their liaison with Accra?s privileged circles; and Nana, the voice of tradition and religious principle. The two's tense relationship set the tone for what becomes a shocking and unsettling tale of murder, that is at times funny, at times erotic, yet always outspoken and iconoclastic.