To name your book In the United States of Africa, and to present readers with a vision of the world turned completely on its head, in which the urbane citizens of Rwanda, Nigeria, and the eastern Cape are given to fretting over a chronic glut of working-class immigrants from the war-torn and disease-ridden hamlets of Europe and North America, is to suggest a project barely containable in this volume’s hundred-odd pages. There’s too much history to reshape, too many explanations to offer. Thankfully, Djiboutian novelist Abdourahman A. Waberi isn’t much interested in offering explanations. The World Health Organization is now headquartered in Banjul, Gambia; ecologists and intellectuals from sub-Saharan Africa vie for the Arafat Peace Prize; and if all this seems just too improbable, well, nobody said this
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