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what a novel occurrence! rich people can be sad, too!

Neni makes a lot of assumptions on very little evidence

My favorite niche trope? Checking minority characters on their subtle discrimination against other minority characters

"I'm trying to say Cameroon is not like India."

In both this book and Wainaina's memoir, African languages are used to appease, whereas the English language is used to argue and assert.

vous parlez français ? évidement, un peu !

"You think a black man gets a good job in this country by sitting in front of white people and telling the truth?"

how strange--on one page she states that she is whole after being married, on the next she claims to have dreams greater than motherhood and marriage. the duality of humans.

I fear that Neni is in for a rude awakening, and it saddens my heart to read she only feels worthy now that she is a wife.