Pauper, Brawler, and Slanderer

Amos Tutuola's tales, drawing on the Yoruba folk tradition and the unique rhythms and idiom of Nigerian English, combine the resonance of universal myth with airs on a range of human vagaries. The leading characters here, as signalled by their nicknames, have all been rejected by patrician parents and forced to set out on what becomes a 'non-return' journey--in the visible sense, at least.