“People have been asking for some time now: where are the Bajan griot voices to succeed George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Austin Clark? Well, look in vain no further. Here, fresh & young in the spirit-fields of that nearest-to-Africa Caribbean island, is my namesake Kwadwi Agymah Kamau’s first novel, Flickering Shadows, continuing the great coral/choral-calling tradition of Barbados.”
—Kamau Brathwaite, Savacou Publications
“Flickering Shadows is a gem, a work of pure enchantment. To read it is to fall under an island spell. Tragic yet uplifting, this is fiction at its best.”
—Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace
“Kamau is a loving native son/literary ju ju man whose language is sheer poetry nothing less!”
—Marita Golden, author of And Do Remember Me
“Agymah Kamau has taken life in a hard-scrabble little West Indian village and, through the power of his vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over. An impressive debut.”
—Paul Marshall, author of Daughters
“A compelling new voice from the Caribbean.”
—Daryl Cumber Dance, editor, Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans & Fifty Caribbean Writers
