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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 recurring decimal in the Nigerian literal community. What was [...] Read More The New Era 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 this literary work of art that I knew it [...] Read More HALF OF A YELLOW SUN 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 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I immediately decided to get [...] Read More KAMBILI AND I. 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 brilliant boy from an impoverished family. In Ure’s last [...] Read More You got me fired up! 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 my sister, frantically looking around the little room we [...] Read More The hunter and the re-incarnated sea goddess. 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 strongly drives African belief in destiny and human attempt [...] Read More The Gods are not to Blame by Ola Rotimi 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 it and give ann acount [...] Read More THINGS FALL APART Things Fall Apart 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 literature by Nigerians apart from stories in the [...] Read More Decolonizing My Literary Mind 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, by the time I was done [...] Read More My Best Nigerian Book Say you’re one of them As a pupil in the secondary school , I knew my mother was a nurse in the Federal Medical center Read More Challenging traditional female-gender roles 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 my own life. Kambili! Her shyness, calmness, observant nature [...] Read More Inspired 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! This book stands out for me because it is [...] Read More BLAZING EMBERS 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 breath-taking set-pieces but this humdinger of a book, like [...] Read More WITH WORDS ALL BEINGS ARE POSSIBLE 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 are made for man and not man for rules. [...] Read More Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Name: Ogbuehi Christopher “WARNING: The Federal Ministry of Health warns that the book you are about to read may become quite addictive after line 1. You know, like crack cocaine.” The above would [...] Read More The Concubine: When ‘Igbotic’ is a Good Thing… |
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