ASSORTED BOOK REVIEWS
Friday 22 April 2022
A GRAIN OF WHEAT. By Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Monday 7 March 2022
Monday 31 January 2022
Friday 14 January 2022
THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA. By Chinua Achebe
Saturday 4 December 2021
HONEY IN THE IVORY TOWER. By Olajire Olanlokun
Monday 8 November 2021
CONDUCT UNBECOMING. By T. M. Aluko
Tuesday 5 October 2021
DESTINATION BIAFRA. By Buchi Emecheta
"... One could make a case however for an
androgynous interpretation of Buchi Emecheta's book, Destination Biafra. This is an ambitious, if very uneven, war novel
whose militantly feminist heroine possesses both feminine and masculine
characteristics. Attractive, Oxford-educated Debbie Ogedemgbe is a nurturing
woman who seeks to defend and protect the women and children victimized during
the Biafran war, but the masculine, aggressive side of her character is shown
when she joins the army, smokes cigarettes, tosses grenades, and refuses to
marry her English lover at the end of the novel.
"... It seems unlikely that Emecheta's bold if flawed attempt to imagine an androgynous African woman will be imitated, though one hopes that more women writers will subscribe to Emecheta's feminist vision..."
- Katherine Frank
In African Literature
Today