My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

A prose adaptation of Amos Tutuola’s novel, ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’.

My Life in The Bush of Ghosts is The Narrator’s surreal, comedic, but dark story of his boyhood, when he ran from slave traders and warriors into The Bush. He takes Ten Paths through the magical Bush of Ghosts, filled with foul-smelling ghosts, a ghost with televisions for hands, and a seductive antelope woman capable of transmogrification. Of course, that is only to scratch the surface of The Bush of Ghosts, where all manner of spirits roam, hunt, and wage war, strengthened and sapped by the human Narrator’s magical Oríkì and Juju.