Thomas had friends whose hairbrushes he sometimes borrowed at school to keep the waves rolling in his hair. Blending realism with myth and fantasy, "Vagabonds" is a vivid work of imagination that takes readers deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of different people. He knew that tortoises had cracked shells as punishment for their unrepentant greed, from when they were dropped from heaven on their backs by a tired God. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Johnny’s job is to drive and be silent, and he does both so well he loses his voice, his conscience, and his mind just as he discovers his love for a man named Livinus.

Tatafo observes the array of abuse, poverty, and other oppressive situations inflicted on the characters, whose hardships are largely the result of homophobia and transphobia. In Osunde’s book, the people of Nigeria know for a fact that spirits at a night market might take them to another space, that a group of women can summon a force to take them away from the violence in their lives, that the powerful can kill as they please, and that anyone can be arrested or killed for being themselves.

However, I think this book is insanely important, thoroughly enjoyable, at times deeply moving, and I was utterly obsessed.

Like Thomas, when Anjos was a boy, he studied old stories from before the country earned its name, from way before the land was taken and way way way before it had to be wrested out of white hands.This book provides an invaluable source to anyone setting their fiction in this world, which is also an immensely entertaining and informative read in its own right.