The turbulent failure of Equatorial Guinea after its independence from Spain in 1968 is reflected in the lives of the protagonists of The Powers of the Tempest, victims of the utopia of freedom and progress. Donato Ndongo confidently and with a clear, endearing and captivating rhythm portrays a fresco of post-colonial Africa, where all hope seems impossible. Heir to the narrative forms of the Bantu oral tradition, the author delves into the rigors of a tyranny that subjugates in the name of freedom, in the oppression of blacks by blacks from supposedly anti-colonialist arguments, and immerses us in the depths of a beautiful world in which ideals are replaced by the absurd, passions and cruelty.