Nigeria: Elnathan John's Bayan Layi

book review

We all look forward to a simply told story which we can enjoy from the start to the end. Bayan Layi is exactly that. Because of its simplicity and Elnathan's powerful gift of story-telling, it is also easy to sway with the motions of the words and miss the different nuances.

Let's begin with the Kuka Tree, which is the place of shelter for the gang of boys who play the bigger part of the story. It is their place of freedom from adults and authority, who antagonize their dreams, and a place where they can boast about their past while planning for their future. The boys are seated under the Kuka and Dantala, our narrator introduces his own internal conflict at the beginning.

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