Abstract
Kofi Awoonor’s Comes the Voyager at Last is a novel that is characterized by migration stories, stories that situate various voyagers in the midst of their cultural passages. In the novel’s dedication, Awoonor connects writers from Africa and her Diaspora, identifying people of African descent as “extended family members in Babylon.” Voyager is an orphic journey designed to contextualize both the “unity” and the dissonance that connect African and African Diaspora cultures. The novel’s epigraphs, the first from Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” and the second from a Methodist requiescat, echo this unity of opposition. Awoonor juxtaposes Keats’s references to Ruth amidst “the alien corn” against the hymn that describes a voyager whose spiritual journey also ends in an unfamiliar space, one that is “upon the farther shore”:
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