Nigeria has produced a number of important writers, who have won accolades for their work, including Daniel O. Fagunwa, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Cyprian Ekwensi, Buchi Emecheta, Elechi Amadi and Ben Okri.
Nowadays,
the fact that everyone is trying to write up something one way or the other is
not a new news because the social media has now made it almost a necessary
thing, there are lots and lots of reasons/intentions for various write-ups from
either bloggers, to Facebook pagers, to E-jobs application, etc. This is
gradually improving the NIGERIAN LITERATURE, where
we have the young ones already into researching and building up vocabularies at
a tender age which is quite really great!! This will certainly result into
having a large number of writers in the society thereby the literary
productivity becomes greater. Isn’t this such a good thing to behold?
Well, the problem is, only few out of the many sends out
positive messages and information to the society. They are now into things
which have now become un-supportive to the development of the society/ economy
and are unable to impart knowledge thereby unable to positively alter the state
of our economy.
So, today we’ll be looking at someone who has
impacted the history of the Nigeria positively and made a mark in NIGERIAN LITERATURE field and in Africa at
large. She is counted as a role model among her pairs and colleagues, touching
and reaching people’s heart and soul with magnificent and wonderful way of expression
through writing.
She is the author of three books and winner of numerous
international prizes for her unique writing. She is no other than our lovely CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, her ever first novel
was ‘Purple Hibiscus’ published in Nigeria in 2006.
Then her other works followed; ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’
and ‘The Thing around Your Neck’.
Purple Hibiscus, her most
recognized work all over the nation which became the ‘Winner
of The Commonwealth Writer’s Prize’. An outstanding masterpiece of work
from our lovely CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE which
is definitely a book you’ll surely return to again and again; each reading
draws you deeper into the vast treasures of Purple
Hibiscus.
A touching and heart-rending story, told with an
extraordinary self-confidence that is rare in debut novel… Purple Hibiscus captures for us the traumatic moments
of a wealthy Nigerian family as it gradually breaks up , mined tragically, on
the hand, by the cruel abuses of a father turned callous by an inexorable,
fanatic brand of Catholicism, and on the other, by the familiar brutalities of
the murderous military regimes of our recent past…
The victims survives however, rescued by the love that
blinds the children to their mother, and the mother to her children.
Thus this would seem to make Chimamanda a gentler and
perhaps more tender kin sister of Buchi Emecheta. But in fact it is the master,
Chinua Achebe himself, which she echoes more acutely by her delicate manipulation
of syntax and trope, her control of irony and suspense and her mastery of those
subtle details that build and heighten effect.
Her heroine, Kambili, may be shy and submissive but her
reticence is the author’s deliberate ploy to amplify her power of observation,
sharpen her eye for detail and description and empower her with a prose so fine
and so distilled that it intensifies her eloquence and makes the pain even more
incandescent.
Nigerian Literature is full
of many oaks, and some of them still foggy and unclear of their real message
but it is refreshing to find a new voice bursting out at last, to proclaim a
new dawn, like-well, a Purple Hibiscus… Yes, so
we use this medium to express our concern and appreciation towards the few
Nigerian writers who took their time one way or the other to bring a reliable,
resourceful and something worth reading. Thank You!!
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