The street referred to in Biyi Bandele's novel of the same name is Brixton High Street. At the same time, the novel occupies parallel universes – the worlds of the living and the dead, the lands of reality and of dreams, the Nigeria of Bandele's birth and growing up and the London of his chosen home. In the process of spanning these universes, of mixing and mingling these dimensions, Bandele Africanises Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mode of nonsense writing and flies Amos Tutuola's West African oral tradition of The Palm-Wine Drinkard to London.

When Diez-Tagarro suggests to Bandele ‘So you could say that your writing is a mixture of these Nigerian experiences and your life in London’ (1995: 58), he replies:

What Bandele is acknowledging is that this response to his new home might only be accomplished through the intersection between his many lives – in Africa and in Europe, in the material and the spiritual dimensions.