Adéwálé Májà-Pearce’s quest for African accountability
Adéwálé Májà-Pearce’s Shine Your Eye is the kind of travel book that refuses to let anyone off the hook—including Africans themselves. Traversing 13 West African countries from Nigeria to Côte d’Ivoire, Májà-Pearce confronts uncomfortable truths at every border: African complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, Francophone immigration officials extracting brazen bribes, Liberian warlords who went […]
