Thursday, January 1, 2009

New Works in African Literature

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story, A Private Experience explores the fate of two women caught up in one of the many Nigeria's ethnic and religious crisis.
It's becoming a pattern in Adichie's works that most of her Igbo characters are necessarily sophisticated, educated and have connections to Europe or America. This collection of short stories from which this one was taken will be published in April this year. I look forward to it.

2 comments:

Jude Dibia said...

Good observation regarding Adichie's pattern. I read the story and enjoyed it...however, I found some elements too predictable to her style. It was the same singular voice (you know how you recognise certain artist by their voice even if you haven't heard the particular song playing! That's how it feels, reading her short stories).

Anonymous said...

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