The Tail of the blue bird is a really promising book. So far what we've read has really set up quite a lot that the book has to answer for. I honestly have no idea at this point of what has, or will happen in the village. Kayo has a lot that he needs to get started on and I honestly don't believe that his expertise in forensics is going to help him out as much as he thinks it is. Certainly it gave him the job, but there are certain hints dropped by the author that imply a supernatural phenomena or occurrence is at work. Nii Parkes seems to draw all of our attention away from Kayo himself as well as his home, the police, and his family. The village in the book seems to have become our main focus. The village itself, it's children, and the people in it such as Yaw Poku are all truly interesting, and I believe that we will come to know so much more about the village as a whole, separate from the poverty and troubles of the entire country. Our knowledge of Ghana that the book has given us has now become irrelevant as the story now taking place in a village. I wonder how the village that we see in Tail of the Blue Bird will be different from the village of Okonkwo and his family in things fall apart. Certainly things have changed overtime, and I would love to see how the West African Village has changed.
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