When his brilliant younger brother is discovered wandering naked in the market, stark, raving mad, the nameless storyteller looks back on Rayo's life - a life of questioning and absurdity. Wilfully impetuous and with the resourcefulness of his youth,...
It-s winter 1944 and the second World War is entering its most crucial state. A few months ago Ali Banana was a blacksmith-s apprentice in his rural hometown in West Africa; now he-s behind enemy lines, trekking through the Burmese jungle. He is four...
“A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.” -- Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA captivating, fictionalized retelling of African linguist and clergyman Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator.“Run, Àjàyí, run...