Which are the books you read when you were young that gives you nostalgic feelings
for me these are the one that I remember.

1. My fathers Daughter
2. Adventure of Sauza
3. Taiwo and Kehinde
4. Alawiye 1-6
5. Olowolayemo
6. Sugar girl

Chip in yours

Janet and John
Little red riding hood
Ade goes to school
Alawuye
my mother(poem)
so many wonderful books,

eze goes to school
the boy slave
one week one trouble
african nights entertainment

Eze Goes to School
Pride and Prejudice
Concubine

Eze goes to school
Alawiye
Gbonka ati Timi
Igi Woroko
Eko ede Yoruba 1- infinty
Taiwo and Kehinde
Iyawo Alarede
So many more, (the most hilarious is one where the king decreed that everyone in the village must bow and worship him every time he sneezes and a bell is rung, and this other english book with the house maid character named 'Polycarp')

i wonder what they read now,

The Boy Slave
Return of the Shettima
Passport of Mallam Ilia
The Drummer Boy
My Father's Daughter
Pacesetter series
An African Night Entertainment

. . . the list goes on.

wedlock of the gods - zulu sofola
trials of bro jero and metamorphosis - wole soyinka

theres this book i cant remember the names
something about a leopard and mammy water
time changes yesterday i think (about one dude named kofi)

Samankwe and the highway robbers

biolabee:

theres this book i cant remember the names
something about a leopard and mammy water

Is it The Bottled Leopard?

I've been meaning to reread that book.

Eze goes to school
Oliver Twist
The precious child
James Hadley Chase collection
The pacesetters collection
The nancy drew collection
Stranger in the mirror - Sydney Sheldon


And lots more - I used to read a lot of adult novels when I was younger.

Call me Micheal
Tunji the Motor Mechanic
The legend of sleepy hollow
Wind in the willows

"When Nancy Drew came back as a ghost, seeking news of what she loved most,she asked first,"Where is my son,what happened to Abe, what have he done"?

This was one of my favorite books growing up in Liberia. The Nancy Drew series was read my many kids and we loved it.

tpiah:

Is it The Bottled Leopard?

I've been meaning to reread that book.

i remember now that is it, very scary book

tx tpiah

Wow.
I read a lot of books as a child.
A LOT!!!
I was quite a voracious reader. I didn't read a lot of foreign books though, (so I didn't know of the Nancy Drew mentioned here, only knew of the one shown on Teevee).
Eze goes to school.
Tales out of school.
Cheer up brother.
The college days of John Ojo.
My father's car.
An African night's entertainment.
The drummer boy.
The passport of Mallam illia.
Sugar girl.
The Village headmaster.
Tales from an African Village.
Stories my mother told me.
The African child.
Chike and the river.
Things fall apart.
The slave girl.
The bottled Leopard.
The wives' revolt.
Echoes of hard times.
Oliver Twist.
Peter Abraham
The she-devil. 
Gower street.
Shakespeare; Macbeth, merchant of Venice etc.
Infact etc to the whole list sef.

mohawkchic:

~I've been thinking about some more books i'd read. . . Nancy Drew popped into my head last night. . When i read your post about Nancy Drew SeanT . . .I'm like OMG!

ITS A SMALL WORLD. Wonderful BOOK!!

ali and simbi
eze goes to school
alawuye
whatever

The Maids are not to blame by Menakiti Onyekwelu ( I love this book so much, it inspires me)
Oku ghara ite
Chike and the river
Ojadili
This is our chance
My daughter my wealth
Anu gbaa ajo oso
and so many them ,

Ade our naugthy little brother
chike and the river
Ifeanyi and Obi
Return journey
Pacesetter series- my first was "life is a lottery"
Enid blyton serie
The African child
Passport of mallam Ilia
Iroko man and the wood carver
Lamb tales from shakespear
Silas Marner
Adventures of Souza
Juju rock
David copperfield
Return of Shettima
Chicken licken, henny penny, ducky lucky, drakey lackey, foxy loxy, goosy loosy, Ho the memories




I wish i had the time to read them all over again

Eze goes to school
Oliver twist
The drummer boy
one week one trouble
double trouble
the lion and the jewel (alhough i can remeber that i did not understand i thing, i still read it)
eze goes to college
the concubine
things fall apart
the beautiful ones are not yet born (first two chapters only. it was too boring and i couldnt make myself continue reading it)
anthills of the savanna, e.t.c
the list is very long. i love to read and i did even way back when i was little.

Ah, here are the ones that come directly to mind:

* Call me Michael
* Eze goes to school
* Chike and the River
* Famous Five (several)
* Secret Seven (several)
* Without a Silver Spoon

Hmmm. . . There were so many:

Noddy
Curious George
Alf Gorilla
Babar the Elephant
TinTin
The Berenstain Bears
That Set of 50 Enid Blyton books that included The Three Golliwogs
The Anne of Green Gables Series
Babysitters Club
Sweet Valley
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Famous Five
Secret Seven
St. Clare's
Mallory Towers
The Naughtiest Girl in School series
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
The Railway Children
Ramona
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Charlotte's Web
Madeline
Every children's book by Roald Dahl (Charlie & the Choc. Factory, Matilda, the BFG, Witches, Henry Sugar etc)
Little Women/Good Wives/Little Men/ Jo's Boys
Only Bread for Eze
No School for Eze
No Supper for Eze
Without a Silver Spoon
Tales out of School and More Tales out of School
The Adventures of Api

etc etc

so many , hmm lets see:
Enid Blyton collection
James Hadley Chase
Eze Goes to Schol
Death in the Family
the Concubine
Sangba fo
Ogboju Ode ni 'gbo Irumole
Sugar girl, i think , the protagonist is called Koku Baboni
The entire Eze series
Novels by PaceSetter
etc

Nice thread
i read a couple of books while growing and I should mention some today
Enid Blyton's Famous five series
Kola Onadipe's Sugar Girl
and Koku Baboni
The Slave Boy
The return of the slave boy
Things fall apart
Adventures of Kwekwu Ananse
Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmole(The Yoruba Tales of 7 great Hunters in the Mysterious evil forest) by D.O. fagunwa atc. I will stop here for now LoL!
Yours
Keep reading to Greatness!
Emmandus

Interesting thread.

I too read quite a lot when i was much younger, it was about the only thing i enjoyed doing which my parents also approved of. There was this local library i got registered in back then, dusty and derelict, it had the feel of a mummy's tomb. But the books in it ! Here's a few i enjoyed...

ALL of the Williard Price Adventure Series (Hal & Roger Hunt) - My all-time favourite.

The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma

Terror in Winnipeg

Murder on the Canadian

Vancouver Nightmare

The Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Boy Who Was Afraid

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Coral Island

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

Kidnapped

The Iliad of Homer

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Of course)

Not to mention a host of fairy tale and short story anthologies.

Funny enough, i never read any
of Enid Blyton's. Hans Anderson and the Grimm brothers furnished me with all the fairy fantasies any child could wish for.

Man, just thinking of that library sends waves of nostalgia sweeping through me. Glad i renewed my membership during my last visit home even if i'll hardly use it.

Didn't read much of african literature then. The only remarkable ones i can remember are An African Night's Entertainment and The Passport of Mallam Ilia.

biolabee:

i remember now that is it, very scary book

tx tpiah

I really dint understan d that book- the bottled leopard... Maybe because I was young... I'd love to reread it though

... Few ones I can remember
* Enid Blyton's series
* Kalila and Dimna- The tales of Dr. Bidpai
* Father's Wish... I cld read it 100 tyms
......mehn... There's alot of 'em and I cant rememba * disappointed*