Africans are victims of uncritical acculturation. Questions of identity abound:
Who are we? Who should we be? Why are we the ones who keep trying to be like the
other? What does exile mean in the age of Facebook? Who really leaves home these
days? Who stays home these days? Where is home? Expecting Baingana's book to
answer these questions is like asking the slide rule to compete with the iPad.
Our intellectuals have no answers; they are too busy navel gazing, whining about
racism and drinking the white man's best wines. See, they wail to the West, we
are human beings too; we eat ice cream!
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- Ikhide
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