Book: Winds Against My Sails
Genre: Novel
Pagination: 205
Writer: Tunde
Ope-Davies
Publishers: Kraft
Books Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Reviewer: Banji Ojewale
Man has come a long way from the days of Aesop,
the ancient Greek storyteller who developed a style of travelling to the animal
world to draw lessons for men and women. History has a bouquet of his jungle
stories and their morals: The ant and the grasshopper (You can shape
your tomorrow today) The boy who cried wolf (It’s the lie you’re used to which
will be remembered, not the truth you only drop once), The fox and the grapes
(One can’t accommodate what’s beyond your reach; you will despise it).
Modern novelists also write to instruct or entertain us, some from forest life, like Nigeria’s Daniel Fagunwa (Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmole, 1936) and the Englishman George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1945), with others strictly seeking inspiration from the world of human beings as Professor Tunde Ope-Davies has done in his work, Winds Against My Sails.
