Background: Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He...
Category: Prose
Summary and Analysis of the African Child
Background: Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was born to a peasant workman in Kouroussa, a town...
Summary and Analysis of To Saint Patrick by Eghosa Imasuen
Background Eghosa Imasuen (1976—) is a medical doctor and a writer. Although he was born in Ibadan in Oyo State,...
Summary and Analysis of Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
Background Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta popularly known as Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) was born on July 21, 1944 to Igbo parents in...
Summary and Analysis of Yellow-yellow by Kaine Agary
Background Kaine Agary was born and brought up in Port Harcourt, South-South Nigeria. She has lived in the United States...
Summary and Analysis of Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Context Nawal El Saadawi was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in 1931. Her father was a civil...
Summary and Analysis of Trafficked Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
Background Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo (1947—) was born on November 2, 1947 to Joshua and Christiana Adimora in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria....
Summary and Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Context Albert Chinualumogu Achebe(1930-2013) was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. Although he was...
Summary and Analysis of The Last Duty by Isidore Okpewho
Background Isidore Okpewho (1941—2016) is a well known classical scholar. Born in 1941 in Abraka, Delta State in South-south region...
Summary and Analysis of The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Context Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) is one of a growing number of African women writers who have set their authorial eyes...