That night, Amara receives a text from an anonymous number: “Your aunt’s hospital will be closed Monday if you sign. The people in the fishing villages have started blocking the port.”
Dr. Amara Okonkwo, an economist raised in Veridia but trained at the London School of Economics, returns home as a technical advisor to the Ministry of Finance. The country is nearing default on its $6 billion sovereign debt. The IMF has offered a last-chance : privatize the state-owned gas utility, cut public sector wages by 30%, and remove fuel subsidies. gdp 242
Amara’s boss, Minister Kofi Mensah, is desperate. “Sign, or we lose all access to international capital markets,” he tells her. That night, Amara receives a text from an