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“... lack of interest in translations of her work. These have mostly been undertaken by her husband, Richard Philcox, with a sometimes heavy hand; she doesn’t read them.) Her novels of that decade – Tree of Life and The Last of the African Kings, for instance – range around the African diaspora. Her restlessness is a rejoinder to the idea that ...”

“... Constance Farrington, translating in 1961, had it as ‘have no more call for his fancies’. Richard Philcox in 2004 is more literal: ‘bound to stop telling stories’. But reducing the whole world of mythology and magic to ‘telling stories’, as Fanon does – the cruelty and confidence of the seven French words he uses, the certainty that ...”