All four of Michela Wrong’s books are about Africa, but Borderlines, her latest, is both of and beyond the continent in which she is deeply invested.
Setting her first novel in North Darrar, a fictitious country in the Horn of Africa — a very real region — was a bold and some might say provocative move given Wrong’s past experience with I Didn’t Do It for You: How The World Betrayed a Small African Nation, a fond, yet critical reportage on Eritrea. Since its publication in 2005, she has been made to feel quite unwelcome there.
