RaveThe Lagos ReviewBreezy, sometimes, punchy, it is typical Wole Soyinka: brimming with wisdom and full of words you may never have heard or seen or read anywhere. You have to polish your vocabulary with it. What comes across is the fact that you cannot deny that Soyinka is a master when it comes to telling stories. In real life, he is not boring and on a sheet of paper, the mastery shows. He writes with the fury of someone, angry, but relaxed and sitting on his throne ... many years of living, deeper wisdom, unleashed in a very lasting narrative technique and a narrator’s voice that is familiar ... as I read, I could hear his voice—here is a book that is not for everyone, because of his perfect mastery of language ... This storytelling technique is very muscular. I have never seen anyone write about the political/religious class with so much dexterity. And perhaps, accuracy! His wealth of experience from different strata of life, reflects fully in this masterpiece.
