The stories in Fixions interlock experience of Africa and America, of English and Luo. They explore varieties of human tragedy. All people who enjoy good stories told well should find this collection rewarding. Taban lo Liyong has the gift of always keeping the reader alert with his literary innovations and curiosities.
The book ranges widely over its contemporary African literary scene, and was undoubtedly the most provocative and controversial commentary on African authors and the philosophy of Negritude yet published.
After troy, Taban lo Liyong’s booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer’s Odyssey and Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Its focus is the homecoming from the Trojan war of two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon.
