An ex-service man of the famous British WestAfrican Frontier Force comes back to devote himself as a benevolent worker.James Walker Gray realises he needs a youngman to help facilitate his work.This is how he comes in contact with Ekema or Otto Von Wilhem, a much respectedMokpe man, for help. Otto finds a suitable young fellow for the Grays. At first,Ikome is apprehensive of his new white family, but when it dawns on him that hecan use his position beside the white man to his own advantage, he changes hisname to Frederick Lugard (Lord). The villages around the Ekona plantations havenever suffered like this. Tribal chiefs are blackmailed, white men aremanipulated and many reputable men are thrown to disgrace. Some, like Otto VonWilhem, are imprisoned. Lugard skillfully keeps himself in the good books ofthe white men until the day he pulls out his gun, and all hell breaks loose.