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“... Kelman continues to believe what he said, and continues to write accordingly. The Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola’s engaging tale Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer draws on another vernacular. Indeed, readers who are unfamiliar with the tradition he writes in will wonder whether we are getting a Yoruba folk-story in the manner of ...”

“... an ex-child possibly, or a dead child haunting the outskirts of a village (not Sembène now, but Amos Tutuola). ‘Ici-bas, pourtant!’ – ‘and yet still here on earth!’ (‘Mauvais sang’). And still held hostage by literary history, determined to poeticise his flight from poetry. As Nicholl explains with great subtlety, what was a radical break ...”