Samankwe in the Strange Forest" tells the story of a school boy, who decides to be an absentee for a day, simply because he feared the punishment that comes

with being late to school.The story focuses on his adventure in a strange forest alongside his friend Nikode. In the book, Samankwe drinks palm wine for the first time, mixes with highway robbers, gets shot by someone who mistook him for an antelope, gets arrested by the police.