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Ngu­gi wrote his nov­el while in de­ten­tion in Kenya, on scraps of toi­let pa­per.

Love, Anger, Mad­ness by the Hait­ian nov­el­ist Marie Vieux-Chau­vet, is one of those books which like Ngu­gi wa Thiong'o's Dev­il on the Cross could have dis­ap­peared from sight. While I can nev­er claim to be a prag­ma­tist, I do know that this Sun­day edi­tion en­joys a far larg­er read­er­ship than any of the week­day ver­sions, so I'm turn­ing over one part of my swan­song to a re­mark­able book, which de­serves and de­mands read­er­ship through­out the Caribbean and the wider world.

Too bad Thor's/Shango day has hith­er­to been my un­luck­i­est day of the week, but see how strange life can be, it's nev­er too late ei­ther for change, or to be­come what you might have been. I'm on my way out of this Sun­day slot, so I've got a cou­ple of rounds left to alert some of my most un­ex­pect­ed read­ers (peo­ple who ac­cost me in the gro­cery or car park) that these ru­mi­na­tions of a Cre­ole Jew can be found from next month, in the Thurs­day edi­tion.