Status Updates From Herr der Krähen

“In short… your white English destiny is as a homeless ex-colonial couple living solely on the memories of what used to be.”

“No, no! […] Black is beautiful. Give us back our blackness.”

I’m dead 😂💀

“A certain African sage says that whites are driven by logic and blacks by emotion. Think with white logic, not with black emotion. If it is true that when a man and woman are joined in holy matrimony they become one flesh, then the quickest and surest way to change the color of one’s skin is to marry into the color one wants to become.”

SCREAMING.

I looooove this.

I think I have to DNF this book. It's well-written and a satirical critique of the absurdities of globalism & African despotism, w good touches of magical realism, class solidarity, feminist activism, etc, but it's just so long and not really holding my interest that intensely. In dialogue, everyone seems to say 10x more than what is necessary (which is the point - words are wind) and I find myself glazing. Alas!

Gosh, the LAYERS to this book. The social, political, racial, and economic commentaries, on top of the symbolism!

This is about to become my latest literary obsession. The absolute GENIUS involved in creating this masterful satire of African totalitarianism.