The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi. The theme of love seems to be central to everything that is taking place in the events of the story. Love, being a universal theme, often forms a major concern of most African novels. In this novel, the author takes a different view of the subject of love.
View Summary View Past QuestionsKossoh Town Boy is a novel by Robert Wellesley Cole. This is the boyhood story of an African surgeon. The first African to be elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a key figure in the independence movement of his country, he looks back on the days of his childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is a delightful story, told simply, frankly, and with humour.
View Summary View Past QuestionsMine Boy is a 1946 novel by South African Novelist Peter Abrahams set in South Africa, the Novel explores the stereotypes and institutions that discriminate against working-class black Africans. The novel demonstrates the effects of imposing imperialism and capitalism on a particular society.
View Summary View Past QuestionsZambia Shall Be Free is a 1962 political autobiography by Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda that was published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. The biography is a critique of colonial rule, and the power of democracy in liberating the varied people ruled in the new Zambia.
View Summary View Past QuestionsMy Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939
View Summary View Past QuestionsThe Narrow Path is a 1966 autobiographical novel by Ghanaian novelist Francis Selormey. The novel was part of Heineman's African Writers Series. The novel heavily focuses on recounting the unhappy and painful experiences of a child, Kofi, attending a Catholic mission school in Ghana, and the contrasting traditional education he receives.
View Summary View Past QuestionsThe Middle Passage by VS Naipaul In 1960. The book covers a year-long trip Naipaul took through Trinidad, British Guiana, Suriname, Martinique, and Jamaica in 1961. As well as giving his own impressions, Naipaul refers to the work of earlier travelers such as Patrick Leigh Fermor, who described a similar itinerary in The Traveller's Tree.
View Summary View Past QuestionsNo Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for education in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
View Summary View Past QuestionsMister Johnson is a novel by Joyce Cary. It is the story of a young Nigerian who falls afoul of the British colonial authorities. Although the novel has a comic tone, the story itself is tragic.
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