“Look, Jide, you are a good writer. I think you’re even better than I am. But you won’t make money. You write too intellectually. Too sophisticated, like your muse Soyinka. Be your own writer. Have ...

But jocosity will out, and the comic advertisement has come to stay. And as humor is rare, especially in America (for what other nation in Christendom would relish Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ...