first review of the Africa Reading Challenge

Sarah over at Sarah’s Pensieve is the first to complete her first review for the Africa Reading Challenge: Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter.

I’ve been pushing on my first two, but it’s been a bit of a downer (well-written downers, but still): a non-fiction account of British atrocities in Kenya in the 1950s and a novel about domestic abuse in Nigeria.  (Yesterday I picked up a bit of Cuban science fiction to try and balance my psyche.)