One of the most important works to emerge in recent African scholarship. Written with elegance, it does not shy away from theoretical sophistication. Concerned with texts that purport to a scientific rationality, it does not ignore their ‘poetry.’ Finally, passionately engaged with issues of race and particularly of gender, it does not reduce these to the tired binarisms that often beleaguer earlier modes of postcolonial criticism....[A] sympathetic and inspiring work.