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

purplespecimen:
Ake; the childhood years by Wole Soyinka (hilarious, beautiful, culture rich)

The tree Must go down

Jagua nana

Jagua Nana's daughter

A book by Sefi Atta i =-? The title is "everything G̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴̴͡D̶̲̥̅ will come"

moresignal: OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN

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

dnawah: "evbu"i never want throw way d book,even as him don tear tear finish.them still d market?

Dospix: Firstly, i need to thank the Moderator for doing a great job on this thread

Don't mention. Without you, there wouldn't be me

Dospix: I just feel most of the movie makers in Nigeria today try too hard the wrong way. It is not possible for movie makers in Nigeria to get the attention of the western world when they try to imitate western stories. With the movies we have around today, it is obvious that most movie Producers in Nigeria are short of ideas( all we keep getting is the same story with different actors).I have often wondered why certain great Nigerian books that told true stories of the true Nigerian society are yet to be adapted as movies? Movie makers in Nigeria need to wake up and embrace this glaring opportunity to make an emphatic statement in the world.

Dospix: Why can't i tune on my tv set and be graced by a Things fall apart movie with Jim Iyke playing Okonkwo?

Jim Iyke as Okonkwo in a Things Fall Apart Movie adaptation?. . .puhlease! . I wouldn't touch that guy with a 10-feet long pole. He's talentless and has never delivered a good, believable and convincing performance IMO. Also, Jim Iyke doesn't have the physique and build of Okonkwo as described in the novel. He's only made it big in Nollywood cos mediocrity thrives in the Industry.

@ Topic

Lots of NLDers listing their favourite novels/books and wishing they're adapted into movies lol.

There's a reason why some books/novels have not been made into movies. . .they're "unfilmable". This could be due to setting, the fact that events must occur in a finite amount of time in a film and a host of other factors.

Lots of books have been mentioned here but not all are intriguing enough for me to want to see on the big screen. eg Chike and the River, Eze Goes To School, The Bottled Leopard etc. All these are kid/adolescent books akin to the Enid Blytons, Famous Five, Secret Seven etc that I read while growing up and God forbid I couldn't stay thru' 15mins of them. I be small pickin?

Give me some of the mature stuff - Some of the more realistic Pacesetters novels, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood, Chukwuemeka Ike's Toads For Supper, Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, Nyengi Koin's Time Changes Yesterday etc.

As per Nairaland Writers, I think Repogirl's The One Who Awaits could be nicely adapted into a movie.

Deighbour: How come Ŋo̶̷̩̥̊͡ one mentioned "Half of a yellow sun?"

timbros: * An African Night's Entertainment
* Things Fall Apart _{used to watch it in NTA early 90s but would love to watch it as a movie}

Phonon: All the books in the "Pacesetter Series".I loved those books as a child.

Uwakuwak: The incorruptable judge.

oyinmio: Time Changes everyday. Not very sure of the title but was so pathetic. Read it
in 1985 when I was in form one in Zaria.

ngozievergreen:
oN POINT!
Cant bliv i cried @ two great points along the story - those times Ona was suffering at the husband's house and when she died in the village

furthermore, i remained emotional throughout my reading , still when i finished reading the novel, i felt malaise for many days, just from one fictional book o.


@ OP, buchi emecheta series, Joys of motherhood, 'Second class citizen' made me cry too(how person go marry that kind wicked husband) ,etc. Inshort, Buchi don punish me wella with her writing.


2) Flora Nwapa series esp One is Enough

3) Chukwemeka Ike series - Bottled Leopard and Conspiracy of silence(that novel nah die)

4) Chinua's No longer @ ease; Arrow Of God , evn Chike and the River.

5) Eze Goes To School (Another bomb) with its sequelae Eze Goes To College.

6) Great expectations by Charles Dickens. Less emotions though.

will come back for more

adexsimply: bEZE GOES TO SCHOOL
THE SECRET OF THE SHEIK

ECHOES OF MERCY
i read some nice books by Cyprian Ekwensi..but av forgotten most of the titles..i think nigeria has a problem with proper documentation of their books..you cant even google most of their books to search for author names and...

Deighbour: How come Ŋo̶̷̩̥̊͡ one mentioned "Half of a yellow sun?"

dominique: .

That book is one heck of a thriller. Won't mind reading it again.

i tell you..i still blame myself for returning the book to the owner..never laid my eyes on it since then

adexsimply: i tell you..i still blame myself for returning the book to the owner..never laid my eyes on it since then

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

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

esn1: 1)The concubine
2) Iska (It has the Hausa setting and characters)
3) Efuru
4)Outrage by Ogochukwu Promise and all her works.

Emmanueledu: I will love to see purple Hibiscus filmed!with Olu jacobs acting kambili's dad.

Yasmeena:
Efuru! That's one book i'll neva get tired of reading.. i still have the torn pieces in my drawer.. starts from page 21, but i'm still keeping it! Dos anyone know a good bookshop in Abuja where i can buy all this good old memorable books?