I usually don´t pick up books with short stories but this was available at my local library and I was doing a challenge to only read Black authors during Black History Month, so I picked it up.

Some of the stories I didn´t enjoy as much but there were quite a few that I really liked "Alternate Realities are true" (the one with the murder by the canal in London definitely being one of them) and the story about Don Ki-Otah. I liked that a lot of the stories weren´t straightforward and had me thinking about them to figure out what they meant, and I also liked that some characters reoccured throughout.
I think Okri is a wonderful writer and poet and I might have to keep an eye out for more of his work.

However, I have to say it might be good to include a warning about the Boko Haram chapters. It isn´t necessarily what he says but what he doesn´t say that made my mind go to places I´d rather not take it without being prepared for it (I saw a play called Far Gone last year - highly recommend - that centred Boko Haram too but knowing this meant I could prepare myself for what was coming, Okri´s first chapter, by comparison, took me by surprise).