Cristina de Middel: "This is What Hatred Did"

Amos Tutuola wrote “ My life in the bush of ghosts” in 1964 and then had to leave the country to escape the violent reactions to a book that would open in the exilium, a new path for contemporary African narrative.

The story is told by the 5 year old kid in a very basic, direct, naive and repetitive style that only children master, but manages to convey the magical and absurd reality that war and religion added to the Nigeri- an reality.

The series “This is what hatred did” -Mysterious last sentence of the book- aims to provide an illustrated contemporary version of this story adapting the characters, the space and the ambient to the actual situation of the country. 

Photo book preview & signing

10 NOV. 2015 | 20:00 h.

Carranza 6 ~ 28004 Madrid