413 African Absurdities – Give Me a Dog’s Life Any Day

If African Absurdities II – Give me a Dog’s Life Any Day by Hama Tuma was meant to be a satire, I would argue it is at best a lousy one. I can’t imagine a good satire to be so angry, so self-righteous. If it was just political commentary – it was at best tiring and repetitive with no real takeaways

Composed of, what feels like, countless short isolated chapters – the books seems an endless stream of complaints and grievances about injustices and double standards and hypocrisies against Africa. Ignoring the instances when the grievance was too much of a stretch to be taken seriously ( e.g. As African as Jealousy – twists normal scientific inquiry into an example of anti-Africanism) – it isn’t difficult to argue that a lot of complaints had a valid basis. Despite these the book is happy to just keep complaining about these complaints without making any no central argument or hypothesis. It definitely offers no solutions.