** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **`A voice unlike any other- OBSERVER`I fell in love immediately- MAX PORTER`A writer of imagination and flair- ECONOMIST`Smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking- KAMILA SHAMSIE`Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes- THE TIMESFifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he-s not in church, at school or attempting to form `Africa-s first superheroes-, he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed `Andy Africa- soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival,
