Dipo Faloyin opens with something disarmingly warm: a childhood home in Nigeria with an open-door policy, where food is love and love is unconditional. It's a deliberate choice. Born in Chicago and raised in Lagos — a journalist who has spent his career at VICE and the Guardian writing about race, culture, and identity — Faloyin is neither a Western outsider explaining Africa nor a single-country insider speaking for a continent. He knows exactly what this book is up against,
