![]() In 2005, she was named an OBE for her services to literature. After leaving her abusive children, she earned a B.Sc (Hons) degree in Sociology from the University of London while working to support her five children on her own.Įmcheta’s works explore themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence, and freedom through education. Then, during World War II, she must protect herself and her children when her husband her people abandon her.īuchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-born author who was based in the UK from 1962. She is unable to conceive a child in her first marriage, and is banished to Lagos, where she becomes a mother. Published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood tells the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society where a woman’s value is based on her ability to give birth to sons. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Nwaubani has expressed conflicted feelings regarding her family’s heritage, as her great-grandfather was a famous chief and slave trader in Nigeria. ![]() ![]() She earned her first paycheck from a writing competition at the age of 13, and her mother is a cousin of Flora Nwapa, the first female African writer to publish a book. It’s up to Kingsley to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, and to fully assume his role of first son.Īuthor Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was born in Enugu. Boniface is rumored to run a successful empire of email scams, and with his intervention, Kingsley and his family can be safe. His uncle Boniface-aka “Cash Daddy”-may be able to help. He also can’t afford the bride price for Ola, the young woman he loves deeply. Times are bad in Nigeria, and unable to find work, Kingsley cannot take on the duty of training his younger siblings, nor provide his parents with financial peace for their retirement. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi DaréĪs the eldest son, Kingsley is entitled to certain privileges, but also many responsibilities. She is also the author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, and the nonfiction book We Should All Be Feminists. She left Nigeria at 19 to study communications and political science in the United States, where she completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master of arts in African studies from Yale University. Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he begins a dangerous, undocumented life in London.įifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and rediscover their passion not only for each other, but also their country.Īuthor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria. Her family lost almost everything during the Nigerian Civil War, including both of her grandfathers. Ifemelu goes to America, where despite her academic success, she is confronted with racism for the first time. Sweeping, stirring, and perspective-shifting, A Particular Kind of Black Man is “wild, vulnerable, lived…A study of the particulate self, the self as a constellation of moving parts” ( The New York Times Book Review).In Americanah, a young couple leaves military-ruled Nigeria for the West. In so doing, he discovers something that sends him on a journey away from everything he has known. He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection-to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries to the Utah residents who mock his father’s accent to evangelical religion to his Texas middle school’s crowd of African-Americans to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. Then one otherwise-ordinary morning, Tunde’s mother wakes him with a hug, bundles him and his baby brother into the car, and takes them away from the only home they’ve ever known.īut running away doesn’t bring her, or her children, any relief once Tunde’s father tracks them down, she flees to Nigeria, and Tunde never feels at home again. Tunde’s father, ever the optimist, works tirelessly chasing his American dream while his wife, lonely in Utah without family and friends, sinks deeper into schizophrenia. As he struggles to fit in, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues. ![]() Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can’t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won’t come off. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uncomfortable fit for Tunde Akinola’s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. **One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer**Īn “electrifying” ( Publishers Weekly) debut novel from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uneasy assimilation to American life. ![]()
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