Tag: Adrian Igonibo Barrett

  • Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka’s Metamorphosis The Guardian 2016-04-13 Ainehi Edoro Ainehi Edoro reflects on Blackass, a novel that subjects Kafka’s classic to African literary conventions – and, in the process, gives an iconic European story ‘an extreme but necessary makeover’ Last year, I received a review copy of A Igoni Barrett’s Blackass from…

  • Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he’s been completely changed. Well, almost. There is…