Title: The Fishermen Author: Chigozie Obioma Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Genre: Fiction ‘We were Fishermen: My brothers and I became fishermen in January of 1996 after our father moved out of Akure, a town in the west of Nigeria where we had lived together all our lives.’ Ever since I started reading books, I…
The Wretched Billionaire Author: Aoiri Obaigbo Year: 2016 “You are my disciples; therefore you are privileged to know that we are only nine people in this country. The rest of you are like the three blind mice running after the farmer’s wife. Nine of us have our way, no matter what the rest of you…
Book: SO LONG A LETTER Author: Mariama Bâ (Translated by Modupe Bode-Thomas in 1981) Genre: African Literature Pages: 96 Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter is a very lengthy letter that recounts the stories of two friends and their husbands who lived in Senegal during the post-colonial period of national reformulation, capturing the story of…
Book-The Famished Road Published-March 14, 1991 Author –Ben Okri I was born not just because I had conceived a notion to stay, but because in between my coming and going the great cycles of time had finally tightened around my neck. I prayed for laughter, a life without hunger, I was answered with paradoxes. It…
