When Jerry King, the American president, is hit on the head in a freak golf accident, the next time he regains consciousness is inside a tiny hut in an African village, as the newborn son of a jilted young woman. With his memory almost gone, all he knows is that he’s somebody very important called POTUS, with the possible surname of FLOTUS. He’s certainly not the little, squalling, black baby suckling greedily on the pinkie of the mammoth African giantess claiming to be his grandmother.

And so begins the life of little POTUS, the adopted and pampered son of a wealthy Nigerian couple living with a dangerous secret. From birth, POTUS hears strange voices inside his head and is forced to wear a powerful talisman wrought by the Babalawo to bind the fearsome water-spirit, POTUS, whom the medicine-man claims have possessed the child. Following a ghastly accident as a teenager, POTUS finally encounters The Oyinbo (white) Ghost, who could either be the trapped spirit of the original POTUS, Jerry King, or the fearsome water-spirit, POTUS. Who is the real POTUS?

The African POTUS is a dark farce of magical realism, a supernatural thriller of betrayal, vengeance, occultic magic, and unexpected redemption, steeped mysteriously in dark rituals invoked in the most unlikely places.