The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s MemoirAn intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post independence period. Aminatta Fornas intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her dissident fathers stand against