The Promise Trap
Breaking the cycle of political betrayal — what ordinary people actually do once a promise is broken.
The companion to The Man Who Promised Everything. Five fables about a market trader, a student, a group of mothers, a university student, and a whole village — each one finding a concrete, repeatable way to hold power accountable.
What problem does this story confront?
The Man Who Promised Everything ended with a question: what do we do when a promise breaks? Most books stop there. This one doesn't.
The Promise Trap turns five real accountability methods — documentation, budget literacy, organizing, citizen journalism, and community memory — into five fables you can feel, rather than a civic-education manual you have to endure.
Inside the book
- Adama Sow, an onion trader who documents every broken promise with dated, exact-word precision.
- Kwame Asante, a student who reads a government budget line by line — and finds the gap.
- Fatou Diallo, who turns private hardship into organized, undeniable protest.
- Amina, a university student whose video exposes a collapsed bridge — and the contract behind it.
- A whole village that builds a Promise Wall, and makes every new candidate face it before they speak.
Why $9.99?
Priced identically to Book One, at the same proven consumer-fiction benchmark used by comparable mainstream political-satire ebooks — rather than pretending either book is an academic political textbook.
The comparison is about market positioning, not a promise of sales or quality equivalence.
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