#igoni barrett

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Kafka, a cui Barrett apertamente si ispira, pensava che la letteratura fosse il diario di un popolo, e la nostra letteratura oggi è ispirata da un'epica da salotto, di chi ha paura di perdere qualcosa e non ha più voglia di conquistare nulla.

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Book of the Month: Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett

What happens when an African man wakes up to discover that he has become an oyibo*?

Igoni A, Barrett’s debut novel Blackass attempts to answer what it means to be white in Nigeria.

Furo Warikbo, the main character, is a normal young guy in Lagos, Nigeria—until one day, he wakes up to discover he’s undergone a physical metamorphosis. His black skin has somehow turned white, with the exception of a…

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Book of the Month: Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett

What happens when an African man wakes up to discover that he has become an oyibo*?

Igoni A, Barrett’s debut novel Blackass attempts to answer what it means to be white in Nigeria.

Furo Warikbo, the main character, is a normal young guy in Lagos, Nigeria—until one day, he wakes up to discover he’s undergone a physical metamorphosis. His black skin has somehow turned white, with the exception of a…

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A. Igoni Barrett, Nigerian author

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Blackass

Furo Wariboko – born and bred in Lagos – wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo is amazed to find the dead ends of his life wondrously open out before him.

As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster – except for one thing: despite his radical…

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Acclaimed Nigerian writer Igoni Barrett reads from his work at the PEN World Voices Festival 2013 Opening Night

Check out his 2005 short story collection, From Caves of Rotten Teeth, here