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I hated ‘Half of a Yellow Sun when I first read it. To be fair, I was only fourteen years old and I had just gotten off the Enid Blyton express. To put it simply, my mind was not yet accustomed to mature themes and I could not get around Ugwu’s gauche yet charming interest…
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I grew up reading books that felt foreign and dishonest, with characters I could not relate to and whose lives I could not quite emulate. From Hans Christian Andersen to Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, my young imagination was fed by stories of talking mermaids and child detectives, who outsmarted the police and ate cucumber…
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Warning: This review may contain spoilers☺️ Having been pressured into reading the novel on Twitter and TikTok (as one normally is), I decided to give it a shot and see what it was all about. From the onset, I had assumed that infidelity, misogyny and ‘slut-shaming’ would be central elements of the text, but it…
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For a long time, the idea of culture has been central to the average African’s perception of identity, of decency and of belonging. Today, it has essentially boiled down to the general idea that if one does not adhere to the strict and inhibiting ideals of ‘African culture’, then one cannot be a true African,…
By Augustine 