[1] In Dibba's obituary, The Guardian commended his "strong sense of period, with an awareness of African culture confronted with colonial reality".

[2] Regarding Chaff on the Wind specifically, the article noted that it was "set in the 1930s, before Ebou was born, but it has an almost psychic feeling of what it was like at that time".

[2] Two young men, Dinding and Pateh, travel by ship from a rural village to the main city.

In the city, Dinding meets a young man, older than himself but not yet middle-aged, named James.

To maintain his clothing budget and his schedule with the ladies, Pateh begins working as a smuggler.