wow....times have really changed. Great books by Nigerian authors. i read them all

Bluezy13:
I can bet on it that only very few people read that book "The Joys of Motherhood"

u r wrong lol



Many people read it.



Just that I hate the book.

Was expecting it to be a trag-comedy like most African book but no it isnt.


Whenever I remember it, anger nd pain swell up in my heart but thank God its just a novel tho.

dumo1:

Pls where can I meet you to borrow these books especially mothers choice and second chance.

they still sell mothers choice in book shops.

U can still get it.

I haven't seen second chance in a long time tho.

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The virtuous woman isn't about a lady looking for child. This used to be my favourite while growing up, I know the story in and out. It's about Nana, the pretty girl that had polio earlier in life so was deformed. She lost her parents and was raised by her grandfather. She was the only girl in her village to have gotten admission into the famous queens college, till she was joined by two other girls from her village. She later fell in love with Abu, a guy they met on their way to school

mrgafari:

wow! wow! wow! so much information hidden somewhere in my head. isn't equatorial assignment about a guy that took on a mission to rescue a girl from some tribe like that. they were given a hot chase as they escaped. tell me I'm right please!

you are very right! Benni Kamba. I think he was a secret agent of some sort.

Ishilove:


When I read it the cover was different. Ekwueme died from the injuries he sustained in a fight with Madume. Madume, the greedy lecher began eyeing Ihuoma after her husband died. I think Madume later hung himself on a tree after he went blind. The spirit husband came in the form of a snake and spat into his eyes, blinding him. He sunk into depression afterwards, and then committed suicide.

Truly an unforgettable classic...

found the novel in my old uncle's stash.. twas a wonderful story.. i never got tired reading it over & over again.

Ishilove:

Emenike is different from Ekueme. Ekwueme was Ihuoma's husband while Emenike was supposed to marry her. Agwoturumbe boasted he could appease the Sea King but he was outsmarted at the end

Emenike was actually ihuoma's husband who died of 'lockchest'

CoCoLav:
Echoes of Hard Times

Jagua Nana's Daughter

Echoes of hard times!!

sinaj:
u r wrong lol



Many people read it.



Just that I hate the book.

Was expecting it to be a trag-comedy like most African book but no it isnt.


Whenever I remember it, anger nd pain swell up in my heart but thank God its just a novel tho.

I'm not wrong.
You happen to be among the few people

armadeo:



Tunde on the run.
another classic.

Explorers:
At all, except these...

dude please where can I get hold of this fagunwa series. Thanks

nice on Op...

prodiG:
Emenike was actually ihuoma's husband who died of 'lockchest'

Oh really? It's been ages so I've gotten the names mixed up

mizzkweenbee:


The virtuous woman isn't about a lady looking for child. This used to be my favourite while growing up, I know the story in and out. It's about Nana, the pretty girl that had polio earlier in life so was deformed. She lost her parents and was raised by her grandfather. She was the only girl in her village to have gotten admission into the famous queens college, till she was joined by two other girls from her village. She later fell in love with Abu, a guy they met on their way to school

Ok

Proffdada:
for years I've been scraping online into deep web , all proved futile

Prof sef dey enter DEEP web isiright carry on make sure you have a good vpn and tor brower ooo
Cos your sim fit spoil oo

emyjay2015:
Meaning u sabi the book na. Which one u dey ask like say I dey yab u

sorry bruv I only want to understand you better

Ishilove:

naptu2:

Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola



http://www.google.co.in/search?q=thepalmwinedrinkardpdf&gws_rd=cr&ei=fMqJV7LGG4nijwPC1IGABA

jaylicioussss:
I have read most of the books listed. I used to borrow from my friends in Literature class then. Kai Literature sweet die. I must really commend writers like Cyprain Ekwensi, who writes about people and things that are outside their region. He did a great work writing Mallam ilia and an African night entertainment. Most writers would often stick to their own region. Its not bad though

Then it was still one nigeria any nigeria was free to live any where he choose a case in view was jos, populated by xtians and minority tribes but now things fall apart

Has anyone read the shining ones? It's a first-person narrative story of a group of friends from the same primary school. They found themselves in the same secondary school. Friday Stoneface, Mr Alan Black and the rest.

Bluezy13:





I'm not wrong.
You happen to be among the few people

u knw it was a literature book that was used in school. That's why I feel many people read it.


You right tho

Ishilove:


Yeah I remember this one. The twins were separated at birth over Mina's father's refusal to allow poor Richard marry his daughter.

I remember one of the twins name was ebibindo and.... I haff forgotten the other name

Amusaopeyemi:

On point. I still have the book and others listed up there.

please can you lend me any / some of them? I promise to return them in good time and condition.

Thanks Op for this thread.

Bluette:
Violence by Festus Iyayi

The English magazine: "I have never read anything which touches the raw flesh of abject poverty and cruel exploitation so continuously, yet ones final impression is of courage, spirit, loyalty and indomitable love and humanity... A tremendously powerful novel. "

Idemudia, Adisa...

I av read ds book countless tyms

God bless you!! I have been trying to remember the name of this book for close to 12 years now. hope it's available online.

Samguine:
I got deliveries just last week of The Concubine by Elechi Amadi, Toads for Super by Chukwuemeka Ike, The New Man by Femi Ademiluyi and The Passport of Mallam Ilia which I just finished about an hour ago. Currently reading the Famished Road by Ben Okri. Any one that has other classics, please let me know if we can exchange.

where did you get them please? I think someone just decided to start his personal library.

some books from african writers I have read.
evbu my love
passport of mallam ilia
trouble in form six
kole the superstar
no condition is permanent
slave boy
return of the slave boy
things fall apart
the great ponds
mine boy
weep not child
one man one machete
one man one wife
drummer boy
gods are not to blame
trial of brother jero
lion and the jewel
chike and the river
eze goes to school
ralia the sugar girl
for mbatha and rabeka
time changes yesterday
an African nights entertainment
biafra testament
there was a country*
everything good will come *
death and the kings horseman
African child
the beautyful one's are not yet born
akpan and the smugglers.


among others and also some foreign books.

sinaj:
lol

How time flies tho.

Av read all the books there, most of them belonged to my dad,

Ranging frm sugar girl, bottled leopard, mothers choice, joys of motherhood, African night entertain,dizzy angel, the concubines etc. Lol


My dad would buy nd force us to read it.


Whenever he comes back frm work, we would Wlcm him by summarizing the books


We saw it as a punishment tho lol

Lol...

I always love reading right from my primary school days, I read Oliver Twist when I was in Primary four...

Anytime I visited my grandma (May her soul RIP), she would welcome me with loads of novels and after reading them I will narrate every single one to her in Yoruba..


One other novel I love sooo much is Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, so Hilarious!!

I was here too

Longman6:
well I do more of autobiography,I have softcopies of a mouth sweater than salt(toyin falola),sun set at dawn,(soyinka),some achebes collections,and when it come to novels I have the secret lifes of baba segis wife,I do not come to you by chance,oil on water by hellon habila,the thing around your neck,white witch,and some others,but I need ben okris book...that guy got me thinking when I read famished road..in the beginning there was a river

I'm currently reading The Famished Road

Good and interesting books

owww. good old memories. i can pay anything to have majority of these books bk in my shelf

MidasTouche01:


Lol...

I always love reading right from my primary school days, I read Oliver Twist when I was in Primary four...

Anytime I visited my grandma (May her soul RIP), she would welcome me with loads of novels and after reading them I will narrate every single one to her in Yoruba..


One other novel I love sooo much is Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, so Hilarious!!

We acted our husband has gone mad again during social gathering nd during pta meetings for our parents in sec. Skul

Read oliver twist in primary school tho

sinaj:


We acted our husband has gone mad again during social gathering nd during pta meetings for our parents in sec. Skul

Read oliver twist in primary school tho

Have u read Providential Provision


The book about a brilliant boy, he is brilliant but troublesome...