Say You're One Of Them

Akpan's 5 short stories including Luxurious Hearses" and "Fattening for Gabon" are novels in their own right. Akpan's stories bring to light subjects ranging from selling children in Gabon to the Muslim versus Christian battles in Ethiopia. The characters face choices that most American high school students will never have to—whether or not to prostitute oneself to provide money for one's homeless family, whether to save oneself, even if it means sacrificing a beloved sibling in the process. The selections are seasoned with a bit of English, French, and a variety of African language, and some teens may find themselves reading at a slower pace than usual, but the impact of the stories is well worth the effort. The collection offers a multitude of learning opportunities and would be well suited for "Authors not born in the United States" reading and writing assignments.

When it comes to mans inhumanity to man, it's nothing new. This has been going on in the human race for centuries. What needs to be done, is exactly what Uwem Akpan has done, and that is put a human face on it - not just a human face, but the face of the youth. Read, learn and learn to forgive, learn to love and learn to embrace all as the children of God that each and every human being is. Thank you for writing such a poignant book! Other times in our history where this has happened and we have learned, is the Jewish Holocaust, and the Inquisition - wake up Humanity!!!

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