• Terminally ill and represents the living physical model of the political, social and moral rot. She symbolizes a dying nation, a nation which at the moment has neither the capacity nor the decency to contain its own people.
• Bears her deadly sickness with grace, bravery and calmness
• Massa is the only reason why Nii wants to stay in Ghana
• Succumbs to her illness and Nii deposits and leaves her body at the morturary

Moses Nii Tackie — Massa’s husband who is desperate to find a cure for his ailing wife

Assistant Bank Manager of Expense Bank, Secretary of the Susu Credit Union and works part-time jobs to supplement his salary but was still indebted to the bank and was constantly late for work

Suffers emotional break down due to his wife’s illness

Born and educated in Ghana, but is considered to be neither a Ghanaian in Ghana because of his tribal marks nor a Nigerian in Nigeria

Unfortunately, he is not accepted as a Nigerian because of his inability to speak the language and comports himself as a Ghanaian

Identity crisis at a crossroad because he is Ghanaian by birth and Nigerian by ancestry, but not accepted as a in either country

Massa’s death opens the way for Nii to leave Ghana for Nigeria in search of his family

Deposits Massa’s body at the mortuary and leaves due to the lack of money

His belief in democracy as the only way to nation-building and not military regimes; a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting, direct democracy, the citizens as a whole form a governing body and vote directly on issues and in representative democracy, the citizens elect representatives from among themselves

Nii and Aaron worked on a farm under an uncompassionate caretaker and this made them run away

Idem reports Nii and Aaron as robbers and they are met with cruelty whereever they go

Nii realizes it takes more than a family name to claim citizenship even in his ancestral home of Ijase

Nii and Aron finally meet Joe and Mama

Aaron dies