The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on...

In a Nigerian city caught between the visible world and the realm of spirits, Azaro—an abiku child, destined to die and be reborn again and again—chooses to remain among the living. In Songs of Enchantment, he continues to navigate this fragile...

In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This final...