Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖

#Africa|n Lit 📚 I read┋Nya Lango┋Proudly Lango 🦏┋🇺🇬┋In my language Leb Lango, Arao is “to gather, to collect” & Ameny is “to bring light”┋also @araoameny

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

(Re)reading House of Hunger by my favorite writer @dmarechera . A Somali journalist/writer I befriended online—whose work I follow & yet to meet—was living in a refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya when he introduced me to this Zimbabwean writer’s work. My world hasn't been the same.

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

@LewisMa33797284 Glad to read your tweet. Happy reading!

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

#currentlyreading The Columbia Guide to East African Literature https://t.co/sw04l1CCYj #uganda #somalia #kenya #tanzania #ethiopia #africa

[Lewis Sangara @LewisMa33797284]

@africanwriter Wish you well dear,,, I'm currently studying East African literature and the Columbia guide to East African literature is a pretty awesome book in terms of chronology and development of East African literature

[Mohammed Dikko @MohammedDikko12]

@africanwriter Thank you for this review. I have to get this book now. I'm re-reading Overstory by Richard Powers.

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

What are you reading ? Which books do you recommend?

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

Last week, I finished re-reading Harry Sylvester Bird, the second novel (and third book) from Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta published in July 2022.

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

I had to remind myself that I was reading satire because some events or groups in the novel (like a group called the Purists, a Trump-like, MAGA-like political party that focuses on white domination and threatens violence across the US) were frighteningly too close to reality.

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

I had to remind myself that I was reading satire because some events or groups in the novel (like a group called the Purists, a Trump-like, MAGA-like political party that focuses on white domination and threatens violence across the US) were frighteningly too close to reality.

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

I thought this satire was laugh-out-loud funny. For me, this novel is a disruption because a black Nigerian-American, an immigrant, takes on Harry Sylvester Bird and raises questions about identity, whiteness, and politics.