Everything you need to understand or teach All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu.
All Our Names is the story of a friendship between two young men united during a time of protest and of the woman whose life is changed after the two men are separated. A young man from a small African village gives up his name and goes to the Ugandan capital of Kampala in hopes of eventually studying literature. He befriends a mysterious yet charismatic man named Isaac and the pair...