Banjo

Kлode McKay (1890–1948), the Jamaican-born American writer, "Banjo" is one of the works that sparked the Harlem Renaissance movement. Autobiographically, McKay’s hero—Lincoln Agrippa Daly, nicknamed Banjo—wanders through Marseille among pimps, poor people, and Black residents living far from their homeland, seeking pleasures and adventures. The novel is full of multinational and memorable human types the author encountered during his travels around the world. This book is simultaneously a passionate manifesto, a condemnation of racial prejudice, and also a vivid, colorful depiction of the everyday life of colorful Marseille drifters who find themselves in comic situations.