Africa is a country - November 19, 2010
If I come across another book written by a white expat about their
African childhood, I think I will be ill. I have had this thought from
time to time over the past few years, but it hits me hardest when I pass
through Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta international Airport (JKIA) Just try
to find a book set in, or about, Africa, written by an African – they
are few and far between. Oh, there’s a Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie here,
and a Ben Okri there. But they fade into insignificance next to the rows
and rows of memoirs by ex-African white people. Here’s just a small and
quick sampling, of publications old and new:
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