This article is meant to point out the overall message conveyed in Gabriel Okara's novel, The Voice (1964). Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics, the article focuses on the investigation of the ideational meaning by looking into the transitivity patterns. Examining two key extracts under such a linguistic-stylistic angle will contribute with enough scientific evidence to revealing that, indeed, as may be noticed by any reader (ordinary readers and scholars alike), the main character Okolo's "search for it" is the main topic that runs along most pages of the literary artifact under study. From the investigation of the different process types that occur in the selected text, one can realize that it is all about man's perpetual need to always take action, to understand the meaning of life, to set a fair society and to reach salvation.