If the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN\'T offers no answers. .
However valid despair might be as a response to the continued failings of his two countries, Ayokunle Falomo traverses the distance between betrayal and love in an attempt to find poetry-and perhaps, something like hope-in all the places it can\'t be found.
In a way, AFRICANAMERICAN\'T is a document of attempted refusals: assimilation, forgetting, and allegiance to any one country.
Even in the so-called land of opportunity, some things remain impossible for its speaker(s).
The CAN\'T in the title suggests impossibility and that is precisely what the book is interested in.
If the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN\'T offers no answers
