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Ishilove:
I know it, but I never read it.

It's a delicious civil war novel. It's fictional, but it seems very real (remember that he worked in the Biafra Information Bureau during the war). He borrowed heavily from things that actually happened during the war.

Ishilove:
Who is Kokoro?

Kokoro was a very famous blind musician. He used to busk on Igbosere Road and Broad Street (at least, those were the two places that I saw him everyday). He played the tambourine (just like Akin in the novel).

I was always amazed by the fact that he knew the streets so well that he could walk up and down them unaccompanied. I saw him on those streets everyday and he never had an accident (at least not to my knowledge).

I think it was in the 1990s that PMAN (finally) decided to do something for him, but unfortunately he died soon after that.

There's a statue of him at the new Tinubu Square fountain.

Ishilove:
Yes! What's the plot again?

It's a very crazy story about a delinquent boy called Akin and the absolutely crazy events that happened in his life.

You will read about the food riots that occurred in his school, his teenage female classmates that moonlight as prostitutes, the bathroom in the female hostel that can be seen from the building across the road, the time that he falsified his results, how he was either expelled from school or he dropped out (I can remember which) and how he stole a lot of money from accident victims and used that to start his company.

He therefore became the "Director" of the company and had lots of girlfriends and hosted lavish parties. He was also engaged in a lot of illegal activities (to keep the money flowing). Then you'll read about what happened to him in the end.

O MY GOD! O MY GOD! You will die of laughter if you read this book. I'm not just saying it. You will actually die of laughter if you read it. This novel is totally hilarious.

Somebody stole my copy of the book, but I must buy another one soon.


The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka.

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This book is like a prophesy. It is timeless. It's like one of Fela's songs. It was written in the 1960s, but it perfectly depicts the behaviour of African politicians today. I've still got a copy of the book.

Chief The Honourable Minister by T.M. Aluko.


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[quote author=Ishilove post=47575598][/quote]Do you know who this novel is about?

I read tons of Pacesetter novels decades ago, but this is the only one that has totally stuck in my head. I can almost remember every single line.

The Director by Agbo Areo.

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Ishilove:
This took me down memory lane. Wow!!

An African Night's Entertainment and Eze Goes To. School. Wonderful memories.

Ishilove:
The part that got me was when the boy's father spat into his hands and asked him to lock it

I preferred Forty-Eight Guns For The General. My God, I lost myself in that book!

The Drummer Boy by Cyprian Ekwensi.

I owned a copy of this book and I saw Kokoro everyday in traffic, yet it didn't occur to me that the book was about him (until just before his death).

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