“Black Mamba Boy” by Nadifa Mohammed

It’s important to give tribute to upcoming Somali artists.  I hope you all go out and buy this book.

This is a review from the Independent:

In this debut novel, Nadifa Mohamed takes as her source material her father’s childhood journey across Africa, which begins in the Yemeni port city of Aden where ten-year-old Jama loses his mother, his only emotional mooring in the world, and embarks on a great Odyssean voyage northwards, to find his absent father.

Mohamed, who is herself a child of Africa’s fractured history – she lived in Hargeisa, Somalia, until war drove her family to London – says that she felt compelled to record her father’s survival spirit in fictive form, and partly composed the book from taped interviews with him.
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Avatar Review

“Amazing to look at. And the storytelling is never less than expert, but the yarn itself… Well, let’s start there, since Titanic director James Cameron and his team have been remarkably successful at keeping it under wraps.

The movie is set almost entirely on the planet Pandora in the year 2154. A marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthingon) is tasked with controlling an organic (but lab-grown) avatar in the physical form of the native population, the Na’vi, a jungle tribe of tall blue bipeds with simian tails and human features. When Jake is hooked up to his avatar it’s as if he becomes him. When the avatar sleeps, Jake returns to his own body and his own people.”
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