Dr. Ali Mazrui, Kenyan born economist and scholar has written one work of science fiction titled, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo. In this 1971 work Mazrui makes use of a thematic device used throughout his writings, both fiction and non-fiction, that he labels ‘the triple heritage” of Africa, those faith traditions that have the strongest influence on the continent; i.e. Christianity, Islam, and the indigenous African/animist systems. Set in the African Afterworld this utopian novel recounts a trial that takes place in heaven concerning major moral issues of loyalty, love, life and death as they relate to the Nigeria/Biafra War of 1967-1970.