"This concept and use of word is found throughout the entire black/African
world. It is present in modern as well as traditional African literature. In the
Americas, it reveals itself in our love of courtroom scenes (both factual and fic
tional), the rhetoric of yard quarrels,'word-throwings,' tea-meetings and
preacher/political orations"

Robin Ravales, also known as R. Dobru (1935 - 1983) - Flowers Must Not Grow Today (Paramaribo, Surinam: Afi-Kofi, 1973).