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message 7: by Emily (new)

1524966 Efuru by Flora Nwapa. The first published book written by a Nigerian woman.


message 6: by Leah (new)

1293927 No Longer at Ease is Achebe's follow-up to Things Fall Apart.


message 4: by Laura (new)

1732280 "GraceLand" by Chris Abani. I loved this book. Here's a blurb from Publisher's Weekly: "Abani's debut novel offers a searing chronicle of a young man's coming of age in Nigeria during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The vulnerable, wide-eyed protagonist is Elvis Oke, a young Nigerian with a penchant for dancing and impersonating the American rock-and-roll singer he is named after. The story alternates between Elvis's early years in the 1970s, when his mother dies of cancer and leaves him with a disapproving father, and his life as a teenager in the Lago ghetto, a place one character calls 'a pus-ridden eyesore on de face of de nation's capital.'"


message 3: by Maura (new)

831609 any more nigeria suggestions?


message 2: by Peggy (new)

301455 I absolutely love this book. A classic in all of the best meanings of that overworked word.


message 1: by Jessica (new)

225325 Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe

I haven't read it for several years, but remember it being incredible.


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Books mentioned in this topic

Half of a Yellow Sun (other topics)
No Longer at Ease (other topics)
Efuru (other topics)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (other topics)

Authors mentioned in this topic

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (other topics)
Flora Nwapa (other topics)
Amos Tutuola (other topics)