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I was tired of dragons and elves and dwarfs, that are a small percentage of the culture they represent. So I thought it would be cool to have a fantasy book for new adults, based around that kind of mythology and introduce it to them.

The Black Witch Now Available on Bambooks and Amazon

As promised, The Black Witch is now available on Bambooks and Amazon. To get it on Bambooks, please follow this >>>>> LINK And for your Kindle store, follow this>>>>>>LINK Don’t forget to drop your reviews and help me sell my market. Have a merry Christmas, y’all!

By Chigozie Obioma     The author of the book, “The fishermen”, Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. He was an OMI fellow at Ledig House, New York, and has won Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry. He has lived in Nigeria, (which was the country location where his story and book “The Fishermen” was set), Cyprus, Turkey and he currently lives in the United States where he is a Helen Zell…

Things Fall Apart *Byte

Chinua Achebe

*Byte - March 22, 2014

I woke up this morning to news that Nigeria’s prolific author Chinua Achebe had passed. I’m sad, but I’m also grateful - for his life, his work and more importantly, his influence.

Prior to attending Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast, I had virtually no idea about what “African literature” was. If you meant the stories submitted by readers to The Mirror, a Saturday weekly in Ghana, then maybe. But if you meant stories that capture the sometimes mundane details of daily life in an African country, complete with the kola nuts, local proverbs, and complexities of traditional and contemporary African life, then not really.

Then came Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Efua Sutherland’s The Marriage of Anansewa - and a whole new world was opened up to me. I can’t recount the number of times I read Things Fall Apart, it was just that good. Achebe’s descriptions of Okonkwo, Unoka and Obierika - some of the main characters - were all too real and inviting. Each character taught something unique and valuable. 

Jemila

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Americanah *Byte

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

*Byte - May 30, 2013

I had the opportunity to meet and interact with Adichie in 2009 and I have to say that she is such a down to earth and real person. So much such that, I wrote about the encounter. Her latest book “Americanah” is already getting raving reviews and I recently started reading my copy. Adichie has a special gift for capturing and expressing the realities of contemporary African society. The first chapter of Americanah is about a Nigerian blogger at Princeton university who contemplates returning home as she makes her way to a braiding salon. Pretty normal right? Exactly.

Adichie takes the very normal – or even mundane – and unpeels the layers within. As a Ghanaian blogger who’s looking to move back to the continent (Africa) soon and who has natural (untreated) hair, that chapter alone resonated with me on so many levels. What’s more, I’m predicting a good dose of humor in later chapters of Americanah. Bon, I’ll leave it you guys to figure out how Americanah unfolds. I know many other people who are avid about the book and I can personally vouch that it’s a must read.

Jemila

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A powerful, tender story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.