I read and I saw better

Reading a book that can seem to bee too distant from us and letting it change our way of thinking.

Traveling without moving, seeing without images and getting in touch with the world in the most unexpected ways. That’s the power of writing.

Amos Tutuola wrote the first Nigerian novel in 1945, “The Palm-wine Drinkard”. As he grew up in the colonialist Africa, he wrote it in Pidgin English, bending the language to make it follow the oral tradition of his culture, the Yoruba people. Reading it back then or today, from an Occidental point of view, underlines certain social and visual stereotipes in which Africa is still being collocated, even uncousciously.