The Strangers
EKOW ESHUN
HAMISH HAMILTON, 400 PP, £20
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“I’M NOT a diner until you let me dine, then I become a diner”: Malcolm X’s words might be the credo of this new book by writer, journalist and broadcaster Ekow Eshun. Here are scenes in the lives of five black men born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: an actor, an explorer, a psychiatrist/activist, a politician and a footballer. Each represents a fight for the right to dine, the right to become a success, a player.
