The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Blurb

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a novel by African writer Amos Tutuola from Nigeria published in 1954. It is presented as a collection of related - but not always sequential - narratives.
The stories recount the fate of a small West African boy; after he and his elder brother are abandoned by his family, they flee as armed slave traders approach their village. After he is separated from his brother, who has likely been captured by the slave traders, he unwittingly enters the bush, or wilderness. He is too young and inexperienced to know, as every hunter and traveler does, that ghosts or spirits live there, and mortals risk great peril by entering the area.
The book is written in English from the viewpoint of the main character, the young boy, and describes his surreal experiences with strange beings in a strange place. Tutuola's command of the language enabled him to modify his writing style to deliberately describe the external world and events in a deliberately authentic voice of youth and naivety.
The story is not one unbroken narrative, as other stories also appear out of sequence.