Description: Published here with the author's essay "Romancing Africa, the novel signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing
Review Quotes:
"In [this] anti-colonial novel, the principle character is an ordinary young man who tries to achieve success on his own terms in a society in which the old represent a disintegrated traditional Africa and the young acquire useless knowledge in French school for travels that lead nowhere."--The Companion to African Literatures
"A persuasive, even gripping study of a spiteful, naïve character."--Kirkus Reviews
"With every new translation in its Global African Voices series, Indiana University Press, USA, moves a step fruther towards the realisation of its goal of overcoming the fragmentariness of modern African literature by intergrating originally French-language literary works into the English-language stream."--Saturday Nation