Woman of the Aeroplanes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kojo Laing
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Unspecified; presumably the late twentieth century
- Setting: Tukwan, Ghana, and Levensvale, Scotland
- Principal Characters: Kwame Arra, Kwaku de Babo (Mr. Cornerstep), Pokuaa, David Mackm, Angus Mackm, Aba Yaa, Canon Burns, Pastor Mensah
- Genres: Long fiction, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Magic or magicians, Racism, Fantasy, Scotland or Scottish people, Time, Mortality
- Locales: Ghana, Scotland
To read Woman of the Aeroplanes is to experience wonder and magic, to undertake a glorious journey to a never- never land inhabited by characters whose day-to-day lives exhibit totally human traits and an abundance of positive human values. Citizens of Tukwan in the Asante region of Ghana seem to share a kinship relationship with all objects surrounding them. One man dresses his Mercedes and sleeps under it; the airplanes are landed by ducks more or less attached to the traveling party; a vulture perches on the pipe of one of the Ghanaians and may be the repository of a sacred...
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