Nigeria – Page 2 – The Modern Novel

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun

22 August 201514 May 2014 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel about the period just before and during the Biafran War. Adichie is an Igbo, the tribe on the losing side in the Biafran War so she naturally tells the tale from the side of her people who … Read more

Helen Oyeyemi: Mr Fox

17 August 20151 January 2014 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Helen Oyeyemi‘s Mr Fox. This is a modern updating on the Bluebeard legend. St John Fox is a 1930s US writer whose novels features unpleasant things done to women. Mary Foxe, who is entirely a figment of his imagination, berates him for his treatment of the women. Oyeyemi, … Read more

Taiye Selasi: Ghana Must Go

22 August 201530 May 2013 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Taiye Selasi‘s