Summary

In Chapter 28, Wainaina says he is going to Lagos and is prepared for it to be as bad as it has been described. Despite the description, he hopes to find coherence there. He is there to run a writers’ workshop. The man driving in the car seems to disapprove when Wainaina buys a magazine from a man selling them on the street. Later, Wainaina is shocked when a man on a motorbike help him and his driver find the place they want to go without getting paid. He notes that would never have happened in his country.

Wainaina describes how the sound “msslp” (205) means different things in Kenya and in Lagos. In Kenya it is a sound made by those who are sad or resigned. In Lagos the sound represents disdain.

In Chapter 29, three years into Kibaki’s term as president there are...