A. Igoni Barrett – författare

'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro 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 finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black . . .Funny, fierce, inventive and daringly provocative - this is a very modern satire, with a sting in the tail.

Dark yet disarming, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection.Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.Where power ends in corruption, or violence.Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.Where love is power, or something like that.In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria.

'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro 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 finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black . . .Funny, fierce, inventive and daringly provocative - this is a very modern satire, with a sting in the tail.

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whitenessFour years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up one morning in Lagos to find that he had transformed into a white man. Except for his ass. Now well established with a good job, going by Frank Whyte and living in a nicely appointed house in the capital city of Abuja, he is ready to set off on a real vacation-his first trip outside Nigeria.As Frank travels to Amsterdam, Oslo, and Milan, he finds himself, for the first time in years . . . blending in. His skin is not in the least remarkable. In Amsterdam he befriends his well-meaning but occasionally misguided Airbnb host. There he also meets a Nigerian expat living in America whom he is both delighted to see but who vexes him for reasons he can't initially identify. In Oslo, he intervenes when a charismatic Kenyan writer is the victim of a racist taxi driver. In Milan he comes upon a woman who might be a distant relative who has survived a treacherous journey of migration. He quickly realizes that he feels most Nigerian when he is outside of Nigeria, and he begins to wonder what it might take to be treated, simply, as human.Hilarious, sharp-witted, and moving, each in turn and often all at once, A. Igoni Barrett's Whyteface confronts the absurdities of Europe and the West's ideas about the global south-both its xenophobic fear as well as its supposedly beneficent charity. It is a heady and absorbing new novel by the writer Teju Cole called "e;a major talent."e;

Denna antologi innehåller nyskrivna noveller som utspelar sig i den pulserande samtiden i urbana miljöer. Men här ges också röst åt de senaste hundra årens omvälvande erfarenheter, såsom Fria franska styrkorna under andra världskriget, utvecklingen inom kricket efter Kenyas självständighet och jordreformen i Zimbabwe vid millennieskiftet. Den koloniala historien gör sig påmind i liv och vardag, och författarna skildrar en värld som fortfarande präglas av ojämlikhet och rasism.

I antologin medverkar Richard Ali, Carey Baraka, A. lgoni Barrett, Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo, Lutivini Majanja, Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho, Blaise Ndala, Philani A. Nyoni, Audrey Obuobisa-Darko och Alison Ojany.