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Original Title:	Say You're One of Them
ISBN:	0316113786 (ISBN13: 9780316113786)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Benin Kenya Ethiopia …more Rwanda Nigeria Africa …less
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2008), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009), PEN Open Book Award (2009), Paris Book Festival for Compilation/Anthology (2010), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (2009) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa (2009)

Say You're One of Them

Uwem Akpan

Hardcover | Pages: 358 pages

Rating: 3.52 | 14134 Users | 2339 Reviews

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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.

In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.

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Title	:	Say You're One of Them
Author	:	Uwem Akpan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 358 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published June 5th 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Short Stories

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This book brought me to tears, multiple times. I actually had to put a little bit of distance in between finishing it and reviewing it. The author, Uwem Akpan, wrote these stories to draw attention to the children of Africa and the struggles they face. It is tempting to dismiss it as merely fiction, to reassure myself that people surely do not live this way, but I know too much of the reality to be able to do so. The stories themselves are fiction of course, but pull from very real events. I

It wasn't until I read the afterward that I noticed that all of the stories in this book where written from the perspective of children. I'm not really sure how I missed that. And in each story, the ending is hard to take. Incredibly hard.The first two stories surprised me with a new way of looking at a topic: I hadn't really though about a child choosing a brothel because she thinks it would be better than streetwalking or that children sold into slavery would spend so long being prepped for

"Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both

just picked up from the library.Read the three short-ish ones and they, particularly 'My Parent's Bedroom' have knocked me down with their power...later: still reeling from this one. He's not the greatest writer in the world - the three short pieces are superbly done, but the longer pieces - novellas really - are too long, repetitive, relying on exposition too much. But that doesn't seem to matter, you forget the difficulties of dealing with the odd dialects, French and 'African' English because

Say Youre One of Them is a heartbreaking collection of short stories (or, rather, two novellas and three short stories), each set in a different country in Africa. A champion of children, Uwem's collection shines a clear light on the harsh realities of life for many African kids.In each of these stories, innocence collides with corruption. Set in Benin, Fattening for Gabon depicts an uncle who, as the guardian of two AIDS orphans, plans to sell his young charges into slavery. In An Ex-Mas Feast,

A collection of five stories by Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian pastor, Say You're One of Them is a hard-hitting social commentary on the plight of African children. The stories are set in different African countries, each one depicting its own problems. Akpan has lived in different African countries, so this was probably a good choice.The Ex-Mas Feast - 3 starsMaisha, a twelve year old kid from the slums of Nairobi, has already taken to street walking to provide for her family and to send her young

Uwem Akpan is a man acquainted with grief. He is a Jesuit priest from Nigeria, and these stories, all beautifully written from the point of view of children, are intended to help people see that "the situation of Africa is very urgent."That is putting it mildly. It took me months to finish this book; for long stretches of time I became reluctant to pick it up again. The violence in the stories is as or more brutal than any I've read. But it is very far from the gratuitous pap that is fed to us