Because everything that they were doing there was incorrect to alives and everything that all alives were doing was incorrect to deads too” (Palm-Win… - Amos Tutuola

The brave new world that they had fought for had very easily faded into a rotten world of unemployment and frustration.

But I did not know that all that I was thinking in mind was going to the hearing of the inhabitants of these three rooms, so at the same moment that I wanted to move my body to go the room from which the smell of the African’s food was rushing to me […] there I saw that these three rooms which had no doors and windows opened unexpectedly and three kinds of ghosts peeped at me, every one of them pointed his finger to me to come to him.

I was seven years old before I understood the meaning of ‘bad’ and ‘good,’ because it was at that time I noticed carefully that my father married three wives as they were doing in those days, if it is not common nowadays.