** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2023 ** ?A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER ?I fell in
love immediately' MAX PORTER ?A writer of imagination and flair' ECONOMIST ?Smart subversive
funny heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIE ?Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of
superheroes' THE TIMES Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora Nigeria where his
days are spent about town with his droogs Slim and Morocca grappling with his fantasies about
white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church at
school or attempting to form ?Africa's first superheroes' he obsesses over mathematical
theorems ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough the reluctantly
nicknamed ?Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white
girl he lays eyes on Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival multiple
crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims despite his mother's denials to be Andy's father and
the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church - both set to shake the
foundations of everything Andy knows and loves. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
announces a dazzling distinctive new literary voice. Profound exhilarating and highly
original this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African
?condition' the relentless infiltration of Western culture and most of all the ordinary but
impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world.
