Naked Light and the Blind Eye

by Sanya Osha

At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a contrast to his encroaching existential gloom only to speed up the pace of his total collapse. Sanya Osha’s cult novel beams a searchlight on what it feels like to survive personally and collectively in unyielding tropical malaise. This web of a narrative pits the rural versus the urban, tradition against modernity with a gallery of immortal characters and with a yearning that sings lushly of freedom.

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“Sanya Osha is one of those rare minds that effortlessly combine the philosophical, the literary and the artistic.”: Africa Review of Books/ Revue Africaine des Livres