African Blues is a modern Odyssey, it demonstrates a powerful writing style that harmonizes street slang with delicate literary prose. Yémy takes us on a journey through an alternate universe of music, sex, drugs. We share moments of euphoria with a protagonist who invents a world for himself within the confines of a difficult social environment. This book is a reflection of today's forsaken youth, the paths they walk and their possible redemption told in prose that could be poetry.

Yémy's undeniable strength is his ability to recount a tale of fiction that is also pertinent to reality. African Blues transcends the very social boundaries it critiques. It is accessible on many different levels and will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those who feel they are part of the world Yémy describes to those who struggle to understand it. This is the story of the search for the absolute, the story of those who choose dreams, poetry, and love rather than the walls that seep to imprison them.

The characters in Yémy's novel are unforgettable, from the protagonist, Jojie, to his girlfriend, Carifa, and his sidekick TQOCC, a boy zombie who accompanies and guides Jojie. Their endearing qualities and wholly human temperaments immediately create an intimate bond between the characters and the reader, who will become an invisible wanderer who accompanies Jojie on his journey.