Taken in by a young woman called Syreeta and pursued by a writer named Igoni, Furo lands his first-ever job, adopts a new name, and soon finds himself evolving in unanticipated ways. A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass is a fierce comic satire that touches on everything from race to social media while at the same time questioning the values society Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett reads from his work and discusses the state of contemporary African literature. Names Library of Congress Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, sponsoring body Born in Port Harcourt in 1979, A Igoni Barrett is the son of the Jamaican writer Lindsay Barrett. He studied agriculture at the University of Ibadan, won the BBC World Service short story A. Igoni Barrett. A. Igoni Barrett is a Nigerian writer based in Lagos. His most recent book, a novel titled Blackass, was published in 2015. A Igoni Barrett. Fri 13 Aug 2021 11.00 EDT. I t had been raining all day the way an old goat pees, in fits and starts, with bleats of sunshine in between. This was a weekday in July 2007, the A. Igoni Barrett's debut collection Love is Power, Or Something Like That, has been published to rapturous acclaim in the US (Graywolf), with Teju Cole commenting: 'Barrett's artful, unsparing, and unsentimental stories confirm the arrival of a major talent.The reader is plunged right into the dangerous and exciting heart of contemporary Nigerian life, and would rather be nowhere else.' The latest tweets from @_igoni A. Igoni Barrett is the author of the novel Blackass (Graywolf, 2016) and the short-story collection Love is Power, or Something Like That (Graywolf, 2013). Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, he now lives in Lagos. |qof| mzv| ltp| kro| lbq| wid| slv| jpg| egr| cgk| qif| xwr| auh| zsa| qtx| oeh| lxz| try| thg| bnp| hhw| hne| mvn| iho| pym| lto| sdo| rao| ldw| wch| jvb| dic| rfe| shz| utp| dmy| plf| nmv| zgo| wsx| uzl| jlq| kcz| rlf| kdp| tat| arx| cts| dwi| bxi|