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Top 10 Books About Nigeria
Nigeria has a terrible image – as a land of email scammers, obscene
corruption and religious bigotry and violence – but the stereotypes only tell
part of a more complex, and often more attractive, truth. Nigeria is a land of
rich cultures, stunning artistic achievement and industrious and resourceful
people. Here are 10 books that show Nigeria in all its cruelty and folly, but
also its beauty, generosity and humor.
As a young man Achebe read the canon of western literature, but could
not find his own people's story there. So he set about writing a tragic tale:
of how a vulnerable society, and a flawed man, could not cope with the military
superiority and crushing arrogance of the white invaders. Millions of readers
around the world have since identified with Things Fall Apart as the definitive
account of what happened to their own societies when the Europeans arrived.
Invariably the colonial legacy was destructive and destabilising, and one that
"Nigeria", a British invention, has never quite recovered from.
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