The very best of the world's best researchers have discovered a way to develop africa: way omega. now africa's heads of state are at a summit to approve it. if they do, it promises africa will start developing immediately. unknown to the summit are aggrieved conspirators plotting to defeat way omega and replace it with a rival strategy: path alpha. their path, they say, is the only way. should the summit still follow way omega, or make a u-turn? fathers of nations is a satire on contemporary african politics.