Where the rain started beating us is a fictional story of events that took place during the pre-colonial and colonial period in Igboland. The book took the writer 26 yrs of research because he had to verify most of the cultures, traditions and practices that are now extinct. The book focuses on the issues of slavery, colonialism and the clash of warrant chieftaincy and the indigenous republican setting in Igboland. The writer employs historical narration as his style of writing. The book is very appealing and in a class of its own.