NP African culture

[Doug Millison]

I always like to take the chance to recommend the novels of the 
Nigerian writer, Amos Tutuola. Not only are they written in a 
delightfully syncopated "missionary English" idiom, but they 
integrate modern concerns (influence of colonials, etc.) into a 
worldview that is straight out of the traditional, oral tradition 
that would seem to have very deep roots -- one of those alternate 
routes (paralleling the official version) back into History that 
Pynchon talks about in M&D, perhaps.  _The Brave African Huntress_, 
_My Life in the Bush of Ghosts_, and _The Palm Wine Drinkard_ are my 
favorite Tutuola novels.
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