Agymah Kamau Selected Works

Cudgoe has died several times in the past 300 years. Now, as a ghost he is watching over the Hill, a fictionalized island nation in the Caribbean that has just won its independence. Then bauxite deposits are discovered under the Hill and the government evicts the residents to begin strip mining. Cudgoe and his "ghostly" friends help the inhabitants by interfering with the plans of a corrupt government.

When Gladstone Belle is found hanging from a beam in his own house, everyone in the village tries to understand who he really was, and why he killed himself. In this Caribbean Citizen Kane, the voices of Gladstone's past accumulate, complementing and contradicting each other, to arrive at an understanding of Gladstone's true identity and the circumstances that complicated his life. And his death.