Bature! West African Haikai

by Richard Stevenson

The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese imagist sequences. It records a journey undertaken by the author and his family in a Volkswagen, c 1980, from northeastern Nigeria down to Lagos in the southwest and up the west coast of West Africa through Benin and Togo. With characteristic wit it exposes the neocolonial realities of so-called third world cultures: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1774150794
• ISBN13: 9781774150795
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
• Length: 120 Pages