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Americanah
\"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected\"-- Provided by publisher.
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African \Authenticity\ and the Biafran Experience
All my characters were white and had blue eyes and played in the snow and ate apples and had dogs called Socks. Okonkwo and Ezinma and Ikemefuna taught me that my world was worthy of literature, that books could also have people like me in them. Racism, the idea of the black race as inferior to the white race, and even the construction of race itself as a biological and social reality, was of course used by Western Europeans to justify slavery and later to justify colonialism. Even the more serious books which I read later, those with well-meaning intentions, such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902)-essentially about the evils of colonialism-did not have a single African character portrayed as fully human.
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Purple hibiscus : a novel
In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
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Notes on grief
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it.
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