Voice to the Voiceless

"Voice to the Voiceless" speaks to matters of faith and custom and relationships and identity, the narrative form verbalizing indifferences only settled by fate. And although fate seems to have taken the form of a python, what has been squeezed out of this African society along with a man's life is its poison: jealousy, greed, inequality. Addressing such keen experiences with directness is exceptionally successful when it feels both revelatory and conversational, such as in: "Are we like fish in the hook of fishermen?" While the metaphorical nature of this image is readily discerned, ... Along with word choice and syntactical clarity, the work's emotional resonance dominates readers' attention and perceptions. Dr. Mark Weinstein, UK