Madman at Kilifi Elaine Showalter While the stories told here

While the stories told here are relatively simple and straight forward

elegant curves

everyone starts at the beginning" and in the case of this generation

Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes

--Nicholas Shakespeare

Madman at Kilifi Elaine Showalter While the stories told hereClifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all. Gachagua's is a world fully grounded in the postmodern Kenyan cultural