Moradewun Adejunmobi, professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis. will be of interest to professors teaching courses about the South African apartheid years and seeking to assign a range of texts that offer a flavor of the times from a variety of vantage points.” “The novel has vital documentary value for the manner in which it represents the criminal underworld of the townships in the apartheid years, the manner in which black males negotiated the treacherous politics of race at the time, and the questions it raises about collaborative writing and authorship in a context of severe repression and deprivation…. Tejumola Olaniyan, the late Louis Durham Mead Professor in English and Wole Soyinka Humanities Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison On theme and style, it was postmodern before that concept became common currency everywhere.” I believe a critical edition at this time will lead to its rediscovery by scholars of African and postcolonial literature everywhere….It is a swashbuckling mixture of truths, lies, dead seriousness, contradictory self-inventions, levity, exaggerations, and all through poignant recordings of soul-crushing apartheid’s impact on black life in South Africa.
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