Taty is a troubled teen running away from home. She quickly finds
herself kidnapped by a malicious imp in the dinosaur-infested Outzone.
While confronting demons of her own, Taty finds herself in a chaotic
world full of evangelizing robot nuns, Buddhist punks, and the ominous
Dr. Dali. Nikhil Singh has created a truly unique universe with a bold,
petulant heroine one can't help but cheer for. Called "a hallucinogenic
post-apocalyptic carnival ride" by Lauren Beukes, Taty Went West is told
with bold swagger and otherworldly imagination by one of Africa's most
promising new writers. As Billy Kahora, managing editor of Kenya's Kwani
Trust, says, "Savvy, ultra-modern, Taty straddles the mediated realities
of our own continent and the groundbreaking possibilities of our ongoing
universal imaginaries."
Nikhil Singh is an artist, writer, musician and film-maker. They have
fronted the critically acclaimed South African art-rock bands, The Wild
Eyes and Hi Spider, as well as released a plethora of solo albums under
the moniker, "Witchboy." They have recently written and directed a
feature-length film, Trillzone (2014), which was commissioned by the
South African National Arts Festival as part of a J.G. Ballard
symposium. As an artist, they have illustrated the graphic novels, The
Ziggurat and Salem Brownstone, which was longlisted for The Branford
Boase Award. Their work has also been featured in Pictures and Words:
New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration, Dazed, I-D Online,
Creative Review, The Times (UK), Mail & Guardian (UK), The
Independent (UK), Rolling Stone (SA), GQ (SA), and featured as part
of the COMICA festival exhibition at the ICA.
