A review by drjmt
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

I found this essay collection very thought provoking and interesting. As a professional mathematician I loved the final essay relating how "complicated" mathematical concepts in the Western cannon arise naturally in various parts of African culture.  I'm still internalising the framing and historical/cultural content of the essay and it is going to influence how I think about mathematics going forwards! This book was more polemic and historical than I was expecting (I thought it would lean more memoir) but once I got into it I really liked the style.