This volume contains two short plays about Jeroboam, the rather less than holy West African 'beach divine'. In the original comedy The Trials of Brother Jero, the charlatan preacher, burdened by a cross daughter of Eve, uses Christian superstition for his own salvation. In the new sequel, Jero Metamorphosis, the profit-minede prophet thwarts a government attempt to cleanse the beach of all the dubious brethren who ply their trade there...