Which of these book did you read? Do you remember the stories?Do they still read these Books in school?I remember one book that impressed me a lot....It was written by Mariam Ba - So long a letter!
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I read two
ReplyDeleteAll of them. Still have some in my library and that's saying something because I'm 50. My daughter is reading things fall apart right now.
DeleteI can't even remember the ones I read
DeleteMao Akuh
I have read most of those books. I don't think they still use these books in schools.
ReplyDeleteOutdated books,said by one teacher..
DeleteI have read most..
Read everything and more,my love for reading and writing was inspired by my eldest sister. Though it really paid off,I had A1 in English language and A1 in Literature,when I wrote my wasc in 1998.
ReplyDeleteYou be scholar oh!! Excellent result...Me and English Language na parallel lines......I read almost all except for So long a letter, Slave Girl, Trouble in Form Six, New Oxford English, Mine Boy & Tell freedom....
DeleteDitto ‼️
DeleteYou sure we don’t have the same elder sis? She was so strict eh but I’m glad it paid off too…had A1 in Literature while my English was B2
1998 graduate too 😁
Wow!!
DeleteRead nice..
Same here
DeleteEnglish A1
Literature A1
Igbo A1
My love for Igbo language though!
1998 Set too 👍
Awwww,my beautiful and intelligent ladies. 😍😍😍😍
DeleteGood old days...
ReplyDeleteThese are some of the Literature textbooks then
Unfortunately, looks like the reading culture is gradually fading out.
We used to pack books to read then and discuss about it after reading.
Nowadays,some graduates cannot spell their words in full, some cannot do without abbreviations. Why won't they even abbreviate when they don't know how to spell?
Abbreviations and slangs affects their vocabulary and messes up things if care is not taken.
Well written babe
DeleteI read the beautiful ones are not yet born, arrow of God, Africa child, weep not child
ReplyDeleteSDK, plenty of it. Novel is like cheesecake for me. I love love reading😍
ReplyDeleteAfrican Child - Camara Laye
Trouble in form six- Cyprian Ekwensi
Weep not child - Ngugi wa Thong o
Arrow of God- Chinua Achebe
The drummer boy - Cyprian Ekwensi
Man of the people - Chinua Achebe
No longer at ease - Chinua Achebe
Beautiful ones are not yet born - Ayi Kwei Amah
Brighter grammar
New oxford English
Wives revolt - JP Clark
Slave Girl - Buchi Emeta
Scarlet song - Mariama Ba
So long a Letter - Mariama Ba. One of my favourite.
Mine Boy - Peter Abrams
Tell freedom - Peter Abrams.
I don old oh. 😁
Weldon o, interesting and educative books
DeleteYour memory still sharp 👍I can’t even remember some titles nor the authors
DeleteYou are indeed a bookworm....Gone are the days you formed bonds and friendships through storybooks exchange and reading..Then in school, you will see hot fights because someone stole or misplaced someone else's storybook....
DeleteNow na to dey fight for man everywhere 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Phoenix, it was one bruhaha or the other in my class
DeleteIt was always who borrow my book and didn't return.
I had a squabble that resulted to a class fight then. A certain classmate borrowed Chike and the River from me and didnt return it.
I told her to return it before the week runs out, the girl just dashed me a knock on my head.
Na for Staffroom them settle that matter. They had to involve our parents. Ontop novel ooh
@Saint Elsewhere Phoenix you are so right.
DeleteThe young ones are so man-crazy and money-crazy (ger-rich-quick syndrome).
I read most of these books as a hobby because they were already phased out by the time I got into Junior Secondary School.
I also read a lot of Pacesetters novels and had 35 of them in my personal library, then moved on to authors like Jeffery Archer, Sydney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, Ted Dekker as well as Biographies and technical books. In fact, I read anything worth reading.
I started reading from primary 3 and loved going to libraries by the time I was in primary 4.
Reading is fun. 💃🏾😁
Finished reading about 8 titles there before I was 15. Dad had a huge collection of books so all we did as kids was read, read and read. Plus he had hundreds of copies of readers digest. We could never be bored at home.
ReplyDeleteHaaa!! Readers Digest Mehn!! I love reading them editions from Laughter is the best medicine, mind your language to their numerous engaging ads....
DeleteHmmm... indeed you just took me back to the class of 1989-1994, one of my best literature books then are Eze goes to school, Things fall apart, Akpan and the smugglers just to mention few and the foreign authors...he who murder the sleep shall sleep no more.... Macbeth
ReplyDeleteRead 'The slave girl', still have it.
ReplyDeleteI have 'The beautiful ones are not yet born', but I wonder why I haven't opened it yet.
Slave Girl - Heroine Ojebata fairly escapes being maltreated as a slave.
ReplyDeleteI dont like the fact that marriage was portrayed as a sort of priceless thing for the female. You know, like we are owned by a man. No offence marriage is beautiful. The setting of the novel was the boom of slave trade era.
Like you said, ‘marriage is beautiful’, but nobody portrayed marriage as a must for women, must women marry? Did anyone portray marriage as a priceless thing for the women out there shouting must we marry? The book is an isolated fantasy portrayed by the writer, nowhere anyone portrays marriage as must or a priceless thing for women
DeleteAnnon, did you read the book back-to-back?
DeleteDo you want me to get you excerpts? Reviews? Critics feedback?
Do you think it's purely based on fantasy? Or where you reading it like Animal Farm?
Even Animal Farm was written to riddle the govt as at then. But presented in a satirical and humorous way
You must understand that novels portray the times they were written and the writer's point of view at that period.
I don't know how you read it. But pls go back and read it again back-to-back (no offense).
We can review it together if you must.
I was a Litt student so I read most of them.
ReplyDeleteI was a Litt student so I read most of them.
ReplyDeleteWow,the good old days,when we still had our reading culture.
ReplyDeleteThings fall Apart is a trilogy. The story continues in 'No longer at Ease'. The final is 'Arrow of God'.
ReplyDeleteIt's better to read the three to fully understand it.
I read women of Owu, joy of motherhood and some old story books.
ReplyDeleteI have read some of them. It was compulsory in secondary school then.
ReplyDeleteHa
ReplyDeleteThis brings back a lot of good memories...
Good old days 🥰
I read some, and lot of other ones
I read the concubine, Animal farm, she stoop to con, twelth night or what you will(drama) those years....
ReplyDeleteAnimal Farm - George Orwells but his real name is (Eric Blair)
DeleteShe stoops to conquer - Oliver Goldsmith
Twelfth Night - Willam Shakespeare
Classical non-Africans novel 🤩
You gerrit,👍 @caren,your brain de 👌.norrin do ya brain.
DeleteI love reading, I wish I can lay my hands again on God's are not to blame, I love that novel so much
ReplyDeleteDays when I. Used to read novels but not anymore 😔 read then to speak well and blow big big grammar when someone tries intimidating person
ReplyDeleteWhat of African night entertainment, I don't know if I got the title correct, I couldn't remember the story line but I know that I enjoyed it then.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourites 💖. Another one is Passport of Mallam Ilia.
DeleteMy Niece loves reading like me.
ReplyDeleteNoela inherited all my Pacesetters classical and James Hadley Chase. And some African Vintage books.
When i visited home sometime in 2021 from this our desert FCT. My young sis told me that Noela is a voracious reader like me.
I con know say true true somethings are genetic or inherent.
I read two of them
ReplyDeleteSame here
DeleteI have read almost all the books. Having studied English in UNN and the rare privilege of being thought by Chinuealumogu Achebe, I think it is safe to say that I am an English scholar.
ReplyDeleteI saw a comment that implies that students don’t read these books anymore because they are termed outdated. I found that very dismal, with the most inextricably sense of horror.
British universities and their contemporaries still read Shakespeare up until this day. I do not understand why Africans will want to throw away their prestigious culture. We don’t even invest in museum, we only relied on these stories that are handed out to us from generations past.
Anyway, the African literature that made the most impact on me was flora Nwapa’s “Efuru”. “Efuru is a beautiful, superior woman, who can not marry or have children successfully” a strange diagnosis that a river goddess has in fact chosen Efuru as her honoured worshiper, so far as earthly companionship is concerned, she must remain alone. (This is me trying to recollect what was written on the blurb).
I see Efuru in most Igbo women who do not know the cause of their problems. Especially those who are not able to find a spouse or have children. Nwapa explains these situations in a very specific and Igbo oriented way.
I love reading our African Novels. It helps me with my identity.
Read most of the books for my WASSCE exams that year,literature was daunting WASSCE,NECO and JAMB had all different novels,short proses and poems to read, understand and recollect in the exams hall,passed all my literature exams,still love literature,still reading my eyes out.
ReplyDeleteI think I've only read 3. Though I am familiar with some of the others but not sure I've read them.
ReplyDeleteI can remember reading just two but i know I've come across almost all. Good old days
ReplyDeleteI love reading novels and storybooks, this formed my decision to read English language and literature in university. I read all the titles listed here, I was library perfect in my primary and secondary schools
ReplyDeleteGood old days. Phone has taken over .I can't remember the last time I just sat down to read a book.
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