Banjo

<p><strong>From the author of <em>Home to Harlem </em>a novel about dreams diaspora and drifting back home</strong></p><p>Lincoln Agrippa Daily known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as Banjo passes his days panhandeling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo Malty Ginger Dengel Bugsy Taloufa Goosey and even Jake of Home to Harlem prowl the rough waterfront bistros drinking looking for women playing music fighting loving and talking--about their homes in Sengal the West Indies or the American South; about Garvey's Back-to-Africa Movement; about being Black. When Ray a writer joins the group it triggers his rediscovery of his African roots and his feeling that at last he belongs to a race weighted tested and poised in the universal scheme. </p>