Efuru and the concubines

All the pacesetter novels.

They should be filmed as a pacesetter series where each book would be a 1.5 hour long episode.

1wolex85: Did anyone happen to read time changes yesterday by nyengi koin? I also like brigandage by taofiq azeez, gods are not to blame by ola rotimi and the yoruba novel kuye.

Are u sure bat the author of time changes yesterday?"

Second chance..
Agidi Sours..
Egbirin Ote too...

From all the lists presented so far one can guess that the average age of the posters on this thread is 50 years old.

kola akinlade series such as owo eje, talole ajomogbe etc

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Uwakuwak: is like there is something i need to know about this book, people keep mentioning it.

Eyaah!, u neva read am? Sori sha. The passport of mallam iliya and An african night entertainment are two books with a hausa setting written by cyprain ekwensi that keeps me wandering whether ekwensi was a hausa man. Those books are really entertaining. The concubine by elechi amadi is just another sweet piece. Sometimes i wonder who between amadi and achebe is better in traditional storytelling. Whenever i read the concubine, i approach it with newness and somehow hope ekwueme wou'nt end up death. Gosh! The sentence he used in ending the story is just something else, though i cant remember it well but i think it goes like this:
''The spirit of dead is known to take people at dawn, that was when Ekwueme died.''

1. Things fall apart by Achebe
2.Purple hibiscus by C. Adichie
3. Joys of motherhood by B. Emecheta

Dizzy angel
A man of the people
Arrow of God
The only son
The concubine
Murder at dawn
Passport of mallam illiya
The lion and the jewel
Without a silver spoon
Eze goes to school
Imagine that
Gandoki
Ruwan bagaja
Magana jari ce

There was a country by Chinua Achebe

Without a silver spoon

Joy of motherhood,is the best Nigeria novel ever.

Joys of motherhood by buchi emechata and alice in the wonderland

Dospix: Many successful & critically acclaimed movies in the Western World have been adapted from books/novels.

Examples are The Count Of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Last of the Mohicans, Wuthering Heights, Lord of the Rings, The Da Vinci Code, Dracula, Alice In Wonderland, Anna Karenina, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Les Miserables, Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurrassic Pack, The Sum of all Fears, Clear and Present Danger, A Time to Kill, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, The Runaway Jury, The Pelican Brief etc

Coming back home, the same cannot be said to be true as very few of our novels/books have been adapted into movies.

This leads me to the question, which Nigerian book would you want to be made/adapted into a movie that you'll pay good bucks to go watch at the Cinema? It could even be a book/novel by a Nairalander. Let's hear em

Kolera kolege by Prof. Femi Osofisan.
Ojuri (a Yoruba novel, I can't remember its author)

"Death and The King's Horseman" by WS (Wole Soyinka). It is based on documented historical fact. Very interesting from the point of view of clash between two cultures: English and Yoruba.

Nine Lives by El-Nukoya, Tomorrow died Yesterday by Chimeka Garricks, Imagine This by Sade Adeniran, Yellow-Yellow by Kaine Agary, Measuring Time and Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila...

ngozievergreen:
Looooooool
Her name is Zainab. I had pity on Abu. No be today men start to dey use charms/money collect the love of their fellow men. Cos Abu lost the girl to d rich Mallam Shehu, he went on an exile for 3yrs in a forest where he lost his left eye n right ear ; came bak from d exile and used charms on the son that Zainab got for the Mallam and d small boy became lunatic. and the story continues . Well, im beta pass many nollywood storylines sha.

All of u mentioning Things fall Apart, u na neva watch the movie or what??

Yes! Yes!! U remember it clearly! Abu really suffered sha...I think at some point he had an encounter with a tiger or leopard,no? My memory is fuzzy...

adexsimply: on point
Aditu Eledumare... ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale...ireke onibudo

I couldnt agree more. His books are so on-point. Also, 'A new man' by Ayo _______
Also, here on NL, we've got some hard-core incredible stories from Redmoss d boss, baba Mynd and a host of others. I'd like to see those stories in videos...
Wait a minute! That reminds me, where is Redmosquito?

dnawah: Mark of the cobra by Valentine Alily,
the Undesirable Element by Mohammed Sule,
Evbu My Love by Helen Ovbiagele.all na pacesetters series

You'r on point.

Also The infamous act by Mohammed Sule___after reading this two books by a Northerner I begin to respect a very corner of this country.

please is the author still alive?


love him

Potters Wheel
Medicine for money

THE BOY SLAVE
THE RETURN OF SHETTIMA
THE MAGIC BOX
CHIKE AND THE RIVER

Uwakuwak: The incorruptable judge.

abeg gi that book is not a classic at all. we need books that were classic

The concubine,the great ponds,passport of mallam illiya,jagua nana,

me i want
1. Eze goes to school
2. The boy slave
3. My fathers daugther
4. The rescue of Charlie Kalu
5. The return of Shettima - the boy slave

ALL CLASSICS. TRUST ME

The Concubine, Arrow OF God,the gods are not to blame, Jaguar Nana,Purple Hibiscus etc..........

My one n only book...The triumph of the water lily...

Ali and Simbi

mrjingles: 1. An African Night's Entertainment
2. The Passport of Mallam Iliya
3. On the road
4 Mark of the Cobra
5. Stop Press: Murder
6. The South African Affair
7. Christmas in the city
8. Bloodbath at Lobster close
9. The Smugglers
10. The Instrument
11. Stone of vengeance
12. The Worshippers
etc etc

Dude, did we have the same childhood?

Violence by festus iyayi and stillborn by zainab Alkali

Do even still publish those pace-setter series? I believe I read over 95% of them......so nostalgic, what exactly has adulthood done to me? I was a voracious reader as a child and teenage. Now I am barely patient enough to read a page of anything written.

khaady: Violence by festus iyayi and stillborn by zainab Alkali

Violence was adapted to the screen sumtym ago. I can remember being mentioned in Punch that Liz Benson played the role of 'Queen', though, I haven't read the book.