Verdict: carrot from South Africa to Ghana
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‘Is there anything he can’t do?” asks the author of one of Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s Google entries. Parkes is, it seems, a renowned composer and performance poet and, now, a debut novelist. This information being gleaned from Google, as, curiously, the publishers of Tail offer no information about him at all.
Right at the outset, Parkes’s novel sports the rhythms and devices of a tale told orally: “We were at our somewhere when they came. First it was the young woman whose eyes could not rest. Hmm, since you are here let me tell you . . . She was wearing these short short skirts some. Showing her thighs, sebi, but her legs were like a baby otwe’s, front two legs-thiiiin.”
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