Blackass by Igoni Barrett Book Review — Daniel Izu Eze
The book “Blackass” is a highly fictional Nigerian story. It discusses themes of deceit, opportunism, survival of the smartest, greed and so many other dynamics of the Nigerian society.
It also discusses some issues on perspective; how Africans, and how Nigerians especially view whites in a country that finds anything white superior to its own.
We also see racism in this work, a very eclectic piece of work, although the work is highly fictional, almost near impossible, you kind of find some humour, seeing how Furo who was able to handle everything coming his way as a black man in a white skin.
Furo comes across as a very greedy heartless, ambitious fellow.It makes one want to ask, how he was able to bare the weight of shutting his family off from his life and trying to erase his former life.
Although at some point, there were several unnecessary descriptions of things, which was boring.But one is able to find one’s footings and come to enjoy the dynamics of surviving in Lagos with a white skin.
Finally, it is a good read, but could always be a little bit better.
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