History is collaboration. This time, I'm so grateful to Okello's son Moses Onyok for talking about his father's life in Uganda, and to Ann Lee Grimstad for her careful scholarship on a poorly-understood era. Huge thanks to Geeska, too, for the commission and this beautiful graphic!

I read Wreath for Udomo earlier this year, along with Mine Boy, and will seek out more. Interested to find out from your account that Nkrumah did read the book. Abrahams at his best had an ability to present competing realities clearly, in something like the way Brecht's plays do.

Huge thanks to Hwiccen Review for the opportunity to review a book that's been out for almost seventy years! A Wreath for Udomo was republished recently by @faberbooks.bsky.social, so I'm hoping that helps introduce new audiences to Abrahams' flawed but fascinating novel.