2014-12-28
Say you're one of them
I have never loved a punch in the gut as much as this one. At once it brought me back to the delight and dread of my African childhood. Uwem Akpan gives a voice to African children struggling to hold on to their strong family bonds, which, unfortunately, are often not strong enough to sustain the external and internal forces that ravish the continent with confusion, disease and violence. Say you're one of them is a lesson every refugee child learns. Thank you to Emmanuel Udoh for pointing it to me.
2009-03-29
Good philosophy and a great read
I am usually turned off by first-year-graduate-school-pulp-fiction-fan language, but this is the best Philosophy book I have read in a long, long time. You read it in one sitting, enjoying minute by enjoying minute. It also instantly makes you go on a psychoanalytical chase to find all the mindfuckers in your life. I can now happily and accurately make the following philosophical statement: the academic tenure process is an immoral mindfuck. So is identity politics, and its daughter "diversity".
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