Blackass

Blackass, a novel by Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett, came out in the UK and Nigeria in 2015 and in the US the following year. Critics gave it mixed reactions. The plot centers on Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian who, the night before a job interview, wakes up as a white man. In 2016, the book won the 21st Century Best Foreign Novel Award from China's People's Literature Publishing House and Chinese Foreign Literature Society.