I See the Promised Land

01 May, 2011

Arthur Flowers and

Manu Chitrakar

Tara Books,

156 pages, R550

An unusual, graphic retelling of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr, by African American performance poet, writer and blues singer, Arthur Flowers. Manu Chitrakar, a traditional scroll-painter from Bengal, carries the tale confidently into the vivid idiom of Patua art.