All Chris Abani books Graceland is too much especially Song for Night about children soldiers
Chike and the River and the Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

And again,though not a nigerian novel, i 'll like to see animal farm turned into a movie. Oh! How i love animal farm. Snowball,molly, the one and only napoleon.

Thanks to Mainframe, some wonderful books like 'Koseegbe' by Akinwumi Ishola has been adapted to the screen.

They are the most faithful in terms of adapted screenplay. I think dat category needs to be created in the AMA awards. So that screenwriters don't think everything is about developing an idea from d scratch, even if it is trash.

I would love to adapt that 'Agbako nile tete' of a book. The suspense is top-notch. Damn! I hope I can find d book sha.lol

1. 'ige adubi' i read it when i was in the j.s.s class. 2. ' ogboju ode ninu igbo irumole'(the brave hunter in the evil forest).

Uwem2009: I would love to watch a movie based on the novel: Joys of motherhood by buchi emecheta...but the problem is if our nigerian actors and actresses will be able to convey that passion,message and emotions felt when one actually reads the novel

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

Aksally: The Boy Slave and The Return of Shettima
One Week One Trouble and More Trouble for Willie
Efru
The Passport of Mallam Ilya
Burning Grass

Guy are u in my head? Dat 1 week 1 trouble is a bomb.

Things fall apart by prof.Chinua Achebe[i][/i]

The Man Died by Wole Soyinka. But unfortunately the Nobel Laureate in Kenya said he had no intention of adapting any of his books for the screen when asked whether he would adapt his books for the screen. He complained that his book, "Kongi Harvest", which was adapted was given the true African interpretation.

convenantudoh: Things fall apart by prof.Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart has been adapted as far back as the 1980s and featured Pete Edochie, Pete Eneh, Joe Layode, Nkem Owoh, David Ihesie, Justus Esiri, etc. It used to be a delight on NTA when I was growing up in the 1990s.

My very first taste of novel was Africa Night Entertainment.


Thanks to the OP for this; I have been think of novels to read and this thread just gave me more than enought....

adexsimply: that book is sooooooooo... a pity you cant get those kind of books in our bookshops anymore..nigeria is sooooo... ..

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

Ur list is damn complete.

Things fall apart by prof. Chinua Achebe

Things fall apart by prof.Chinua Achebe,abi how do you see it?

kaydee: The Passport of Mallam ilia

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

slimyem: Igbo Olodumare too and Irinkerindo ninu igbo Elegbeje.
Awesome books!!

Igodo abi na ogodo. one nollywood movie back then then was a poor copy of one of his books.

kaydee: The Passport of Mallam ilia

loved this as well.

micki83: Y'all are making me feel so nostalgic! I remember reading a lot of d books u guys hav listed and I'm like "damn...where did my childhood go?". I'd definitely luv to see "an african night's entertainment"...I wonder who they culd get to play d part of d beautiful lead female charater(don't remember her name,but d description of her beauty was so vivid in my mind...and d smell of d voodoo-perfume...) *sigh*

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??

Lol..is it only me dat avn't read dis "things fall apart"of a novel??maybe I nid 2 go and get it..

Joys of motherhood wld dfntly be a great movie and it wn't cost much unless den wan show burma wia den go fight war..lol

The gods are not to blame 2

And d 1 I wld av loved most thankfully has bin done "OLEKU"...mehn..dos guys rili tried...dey even make d film sweet pass d novel..

SCOUNDRELS IN UNIFORM. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS AVE READ. VERY HILLARIOUS WITH PUNCHY LINES.ITS A MUST READ.

adexsimply: EZE 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...

passport of mallam illa was great.

There Was A Country --- By Chinua Achebe

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??

dont mind dem mentioning "Things Fall Apart" As he they have not watched the movie in which Pete Edochie starred as Okonkwo

PURPLE HIBISCUS!!!!I really love that book.

saxywale:
Igodo abi na ogodo. one nollywood movie back then then was a poor copy of one of his books.

I didn't watch Igodo but given the usually poor Nollywood movies back then,i don't doubt how much of an insult the movie must have been to the book.
Besides,it would be better adapted in the yoruba language and i don't think any Nigerian production body can do it better than MAINFRAME.

AN AFRICAN NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT. EZE GOES TO COLLEGE.THE DRUMMER BOY.

Things Fall Apart is a already a movie. A series. I will prefer true life stories. Like the life of awolowo, or zik or ahmadu bello. Just like malcom x

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adexsimply: that book is sooooooooo... a pity you cant get those kind of books in our bookshops anymore..nigeria is sooooo... ..

Walahi,this country don finish pata pata.
I read every single one of those books. It's a pity our modern day authors don't write captivating stories like this anymore.
SMDH!!!!!

Fagunwa series:
aditu olodumare,
igbo olodumare- forest of god,
ireke onibudo,
irinkerindo ninu igbo elegbeje- expedition to the mountain of thought.
Then the king of them all; ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmole: forest of a thousand demon.
Attempt was made by yoruba nollywood to adapt some of fagunwa's works to screenplay, but the whole concept lacked creativity, and the outcome was bland, thus the idea was abandoned.
My other favourites include:

passport of mallam ilia- a very explosive book that tells a powerful story of love.

Behind the rising sun by S.O Mezu - an entirely objective witness account and one of the very few impartial books about the biafran war.

IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEDGE TO HAVE READ THESE BOOKS. HW TIMES HAV CHANGED.WITH THESE BOOKS U DONT NEED GLUED TO TV