I have devoured the content of several Nigerian books and I am always taken aback as I read in dismay the very similar stories contained in Nigerian literal works. This gory sight has become a [...]
Best Nigerian Books
Jul 172010
Jul 172010
Author: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie This book was given to me as a gift by a dear friend of mine. Having read Purple Hibiscus by the same author, I looked forward to taking a peek into [...]
Jul 172010
We became good friends, Kambili and I, when I realized we have a lot in common. I have learnt a lot from her and her experiences. We met on the first page of Purple Hibiscus [...]
Jul 172010
Author: Eddie Iroh Book:Without a Silver Spoon Word count: 250 words. Without a Silver Spoon stirred up in me a love for reading Nigerian books. My heart went out to the protagonist Ure Chokwe, a [...]
I got back from school one day and the first thing I searched for was my ‘Concubine’. When I couldn’t find it after approximately ten minutes, I freaked. “Have you seen the concubine?” I asked [...]
The Gods are not to Blame Ola Rotimi ***** My Best Nigerian book is Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame . It’s a classic that most literature student can not escape. The play [...]
Jul 172010
THINGS FALL APART Author:Chinua Achebe. Written by Kaosi Anyanwu. Location:Lagos. I remember that very day as if it was yesterday.The day I got this book.My dad came back one day saying that we must read [...]
Jul 172010
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe As cliché as it might sound, Things Fall Apart was the book that did ‘it’ for me. For too long my literary world was colonized, I had never read any [...]
Jul 172010
Title of the novel – Purple Hibiscus Author’s name – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ‘Things started to fall apart at home’. That is what Chimamanda writes in the opening line of the novel and of course, [...]
Say you’re one of them Uwem Akpan As a pupil in the secondary school , I knew my mother was a nurse in the Federal Medical center , Ikot Ekpene and that she was paid [...]
Jul 172010
BOOK: PURPLE HIBISCUS AUTHOR: CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE As I flipped through the pages, I couldn’t help but to be increasingly enamoured of my best Nigerian book. It felt like the story of a part of [...]
Jul 172010
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta did not strike a chord in me initially. It was slow-paced and the central theme evaded me. Fast-forward one hundred plus pages later, I was utterly blown away! [...]
When a hopeless sucker for magical realism and words extravaganza like me is asked to nominate his best Nigerian book he has only one choice: The Famished Road. Many good novels manage a couple of [...]
My favourite Nigerian book is Chimnmanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus for several reasons beyond her writing style, structure, topic and story. The novel highlights various issues from family to society to government. I learnt that rules [...]
Name: Ogbuehi Christopher Book Title: The Concubine Location: Nassarawo Quarters, Gombe State “WARNING: The Federal Ministry of Health warns that the book you are about to read may become quite addictive after line 1. You [...]
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