Whyteface by Barrett, A. Igoni
Whyteface by Barrett, A. Igoni

Whyteface

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whiteness Four years...
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Author: A. Igoni Barrett
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Language: English
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Whyteface by Barrett, A. Igoni

Whyteface

$20.40
Whyteface by Barrett, A. Igoni

Whyteface

$20.40
Author: A. Igoni Barrett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whiteness

Four years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up one morning in Lagos to find that he had transformed into a white man. Except for his ass. Now well established with a good job, going by Frank Whyte and living in a nicely appointed house in the capital city of Abuja, he is ready to set off on a real vacation--his first trip outside Nigeria.

As Frank travels to Amsterdam, Oslo, and Milan, he finds himself, for the first time in years . . . blending in. His skin is not in the least remarkable. In Amsterdam he befriends his well-meaning but occasionally misguided Airbnb host. There he also meets a Nigerian expat living in America whom he is both delighted to see but who vexes him for reasons he can't initially identify. In Oslo, he intervenes when a charismatic Kenyan writer is the victim of a racist taxi driver. In Milan he comes upon a woman who might be a distant relative who has survived a treacherous journey of migration. He quickly realizes that he feels most Nigerian when he is outside of Nigeria, and he begins to wonder what it might take to be treated, simply, as human.

Hilarious, sharp-witted, and moving, each in turn and often all at once, A. Igoni Barrett's Whyteface confronts the absurdities of Europe and the West's ideas about the global south--both its xenophobic fear as well as its supposedly beneficent charity. It is a heady and absorbing new novel by the writer Teju Cole called "a major talent."

Author: A. Igoni Barrett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 08/04/2026
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781644454022


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/05/2026 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2026

About the Author
A. Igoni Barrett is the author of Blackass and Love Is Power, or Something Like That. He is the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He lives in Nigeria.
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