Stephen Buoro is a writer of imagination and flair, as his debut novel shows. The prose on any page could only be his
The novel tells the story of a 15-year-old semi-believing Christian boy from Kontagora, a town in the mainly Muslim northwest of. Andy Africa is the second and only surviving son of the fiercely devoted Mama. Since he was born by a disfiguring Caesarean section, she has brought him up on her own, making ends meet by running a small photography studio opposite the local brothel.
The identity of Andy’s father is at first undisclosed. He has contributed neither maintenance nor fatherly wisdom. The author offers tantalising clues . The solution of the mystery, when it arrives, confirms the bleakness of the world Andy grows up in. He mostly spends his days mucking about with his “droogs”, Slim and Morocca. They tease him mercilessly; he philosophises about black power and mathematics and fantasises about white girls, with their hidden secrets and waves of platinum-blond hair. Temptation comes in the form of the first white girl he meets, Eileen, a preacher’s niece. The course of true love does not run smooth.
Mr Buoro is a writer of imagination and flair. The book’s structure, which follows the five mysteries of the Catholic rosary, from Christ’s agony in the garden to the crucifixion, prevents the author’s cascading words from sweeping the story away. His sentences are mad, boisterous, incantatory—and, in a continent where rhythm is as common as praying, quite singular. The prose on any page could only be his.
And Andy Africa is an unforgettable character: an old soul, goofy and generous, who dreams his evanescent dreams while battling his friends’ joshing and his own longings. The
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