TOYIN AKINOSHO

This is quite an elegant narrative of a personal medical problem. It reminds one of Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones's piece of his failing sight in West Africa magazine close to thirty years ago. For all those details of frustrating visits from Doctor to Doctor and the keen observation of the surrounding-one reference to feeling shameful about the inability to read a menu, not so much about the poor sight, but about what a group of young white people would think of this black person's level of literacy-this is a cause for pause.