A beguiling account of coming of age in post-colonial Africa ... This is Africa from the African point of view, a vibrant celebration of "normal human beings doing normal things"
Sunday Times
Brilliant... Wainaina's beautifully elastic sentences fizz and crackle, pounce on their meanings, stretch and snap back into place ... An outstanding book, bursting with life and ... Read morefull of love
Teju Cole A strange, allusive, tender memoir about growing up in middle-class Kenya
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Guardian
Harried reader, I'll save you precious time: skip this review and head directly to the bookstore for Binyavanga Wainaina's stand-up-and-cheer coming-of-age memoir
International Herald Tribune
I love this book. An insight into a world I've never seen before. Binyavanga Wainana opens the doors and beckons us into the portrait of an artist as a young Kenyan. An examination of language, loss and return. Great stuff.
Colum McCann A memoir that immerses the reader in the feel of contemporary African life ... a sharply observed picaresque tale that delivers on the promise of his earlier writing
Observer
Wainaina's beguiling account of growing up in post-colonial 1970s Kenya is an extended endeavour to understand and explain his culture ... a vibrant celebration
Ian Critchley
Sunday Times
A startling shape-shifting memoir
Claire Allfree
Metro
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