A review by anetq
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo

4.0

Sister Killjoy is travelling and observing the strange customs of the people (like eating cold food in Germany, the loneliness of the people and the shadows of the nazi regime) - but she is also pointing out the racism, sexism, thinly veiled slavery she meets along her way - and the strange (and mostly poor) lives of the brightest of Africans studying in London - and pointing out how they lie about the conditions to those at home, and refusing togo home. But she does this while telling stories of love and life, and not in a preaching or overly analytical way (this is not Memmi). Which make this powerful writing, from a lady who doesn’t believe she should shut up, even if she is a woman.

And if you are not reading it for the story and opinions, read it for it’s interesting modernist style - with prose poem intermissions between the trains of thought and more classic parts.