Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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For all you potenetial readers who are like me, students of Africa and African literature, don’t make the mistake of being mislead by the subtitle: An African Childhood. Africa is a large contintent made up of over 50 countries and several hundred ethnic groups. In the South and the East where the soil is rich and the material benefits large, white settlers can still be found. Fuller conflated a particular white settler Rhodesian childhood with African somehow. Like the South African afronaut, this is a silly claim and misleading if you are truly seeking to read a book on Africa and Africans.
On the plus side, she loves animals and gives nice descriptions of the non-human native life forms.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is basically a white mans point of view of the great continent that they distroyed. The political system in Zimbabwe is not ment for African peoples benefit that is why you have or may i say had whites advanced on the farms. All i can say is I am happy R. Mugabe a true Revolutionary chased them off the land and gave it to its rightfull heirs.
Golden Ballz
Proud Zimbabwean
Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book for my book club. It just seemed to meander through her childhood, no real plot or climax. Yes, this girl definitely had a different type of childhood, but what makes it that interesting or significant?????
Rating: 1 / 5
I would agree with one other reviewer that the writing in Alexandra Fuller’s book is unfortunately not the best. At one point she tries to make a comparison between Zimbabwe and a teapot and it makes no sense. There are many more of these, enough, to kind of put you off and it’s a shame. Some people might like the fact that the author’s family is so very eccentric and so refreshingly upfront in their white supremacist sense of priviledge. In this sense Fuller spins a yarn that some might find new to them and entertaining. In the end it was a dud for me because it was just that– entertainment and really not about much else. I like jungle Safaris too and I like to take in carnival scenes; I also like books to have some transcendental point and to be about something other than itself. Perhaps it would be more worthwhile to in fact visit Southern African writers such as Zimbabwean, Tsitsi Dangeremba whose “Nervous Conditions” made a deep imact on me. So all in all “Don’t Let’s…” is interesting in its quest to delight you with a strange tale about dysfunctionals but a perspective, whatever that perspective may be, would have helped tremendously.
Rating: 1 / 5
Another version of white settler life in Zimbabwe could be George Clark’s work. There is some nuance there and some substance. There’s little here in “Don’t Lets…” In fact, for the many native people who lost their land, their lives and their dignity and customs, this book is dangerously irrelevant. Again, for those who need and demand more from a book that portends to be about a complex topic that forever remains in the news, Fuller’s book is not for you. There’s no denying it is for a few others who may be reading for some light entertainment versus those of you hoping for a fuller understanding of the so-called modern world filled as it is with tremendous suffering and strife.
Rating: 1 / 5