Drum Bits of Terror

Drum Bits of TerrorPoignant and perceptive, Drum Bits of Terror tells the story of Samuel Adooli, a young man struggling to find his place in society. Inadvertently learning he was not born of wedlock, a cultural taboo, he embarks on his pursuit to find his father. He hits a roadblock as his quest side tracks his schooling; he flunks his fourth form exams, leaving him with little to no option, but join a polytechnic college. Along the way, he forges a couple of unstable

sharing some core concepts while differing widely

with their attendant antithetical consequences including loss of their African identity or Blackness

sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads―Nick Travers is sent to find him

The questioning of Kiros and responses of West encourage us to meditate on the meaning of A Love Supreme from the heart

adapted into a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson (and written and directed by the author)

it was his relentless work ethic

reflects on the common experiences of African American and Jewish people as minorities and on the great tragedy that each community has experienced in its history―slavery and the Holocaust

human beings themselves seem to constitute the major blot on the landscape

empathetic children while working

so you can color with pencils

Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors

In June of 1993 Mutia was honoured by the Berlin Academy of Arts as special guest writer in an international writers' reading