Odie Hawkins
Palm Wine Junction has several stories reflecting the Pan-African Occult genre. I invite the perceptive reader to determine which stories come from that genre. I would also suggest that the prospective reader should not be led into thinking that the children, beautifully detailed by artist Suchin Lin, on the cover of Palm Wine Junction represent the unusual stories in Palm Wine Junction. The children were chosen, symbolically, to represent ideal readers - those who are unbiased, 'innocent', their imagination still intact, willing to have an experience with 'unusual stories 3