USA Africa Dialogue Series - "Ghana Must Go"

Has anyone on the list read the new book, "Ghana Must Go?"  It's a novel written by a very beautiful, talented, and cosmopolitan young lady.  I am reading it now.  I'm not doing an academic reading.  I am reading every word so I guess you could say I'm reading for enjoyment.  

I want to know if there are any others who share my opinion of the book.  It's very touching, sensitive, and has moved me to some pretty emotional peaks.  Is it just me?  Am I viscerally volcanic?  Or have others felt the same?

Please let me know via this thread of my email.  It is lrstaples@gmail.com.  These new African writers are nothing like their predecessors and they have far more depth than most African American writers who are their contemporaries in age, experiences, etc.  It seems as if the college educated African American writer has very little to say which is "sticky."  While the experiential tales of those who have written their lives, their hearts and their spirits are far better bets for your economic vote.  With the African writers the converse is true.  The educated African writer, in my limited opinion, is putting forth a body of work which may in fact create an era (i.e., Harlem Renaissance, Negritude et al).  I find nothing notable in the literary contributions of those who were "rescued" from the usual African range of subjects (child marriage, female circumcision, and the list is synonymous with the aid lists of NGOs).  I'm tired of hearing how massah done saved his African chillun.  Rather, I'm more interested in the views of those who have traveled the world and who have no dogs in any fight; the objective views of those who can frame an argument from various perspectives.  

Thank you for your time and attention,

Vonda

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