The Doomed Conspiracy and Other Stories is a collection of short stories covering the period from independence in the early 1960s to-date. The stories explore themes of social, cultural and spiritual aspects of life. They are vividly told in a captivating and fast moving narrative and examine salient issues that are close to many people's hearts like crime and justice, family relationships, love and marriage, slum life, vengeance and retribution and racial relations. The stories exhibit a great deal of originality with a consciousness of style which is very striking.