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Hello everyone, it’s a new week! I’ve had quite an interesting day being on an interview panel and my brain is ready to go to sleep 😴 but here’s a book haul of three paperbacks I treated myself to just before Xmas - because why not? 🤣 Purple Hibiscus is the story of 15 year old Kambili and her older brother Jaja who lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. “They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They’re completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet…things are less perfect than they appear.” This is the only novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that I haven’t read and I’m looking to it! Next up, I knew absolutely nothing about These Bones Are Not My Child but was compelled to pick it up from the title and the cover alone! It was written over twelve years and Toni Morrison said it was “a magnum opus…puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders.” Finally, Station Eleven which I have already read but only in the Kindle version. I love buying physical copies of my favourite books if I’ve read them digitally. Does anyone else do that? I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments and have a lovely week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagramuk #anotherbookhaul #scottishbookstagrammer #chimamandangoziadichie #purplehibiscus #thesebonesarenotmychild #tonicadebambara #stationeleven #emilystjohnmandel #favouritebooksever #tbrtoppler #toomanybooksnotenoughshelves #neverstopbuyingbooks #insatiablebookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvWJzqra8J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"The thing about following what feels true to you, doing what feels true to you, is not so much that it must always work out, because sometimes it doesn’t work out. Sometimes there are consequences that are not so great. But the thing is you sleep well at night and you know that you did what felt true to you and I really think that that’s very important." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the 32nd Annual Leadership Conference of The Women’s Centre in 2018. An aphorism I cannot forget is penned in her book — "Half of a Yellow Sun🌞" "If the sun refuses to rise, we will make it rise!" 📌👍 Author @chimamanda_adichie Born 15 September, 1977 Notable works include: 📍 Purple Hibiscus (2003) 📍 Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) 📍 Americanah (2013) 📍 We Should All Be Feminists (2014) #juveh #sammyjuveh #chimamandangoziadichie #purplehibiscus #halfofayellowsun #author https://www.instagram.com/p/Cktci_DolZL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"...All my years in Cambridge, I was a monkey who had developed the ability to reason" — Aunty Phillipa (the Nigerian in America) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus was not absolutely silent on racism though she didn't bring out much about it as she did in AMERICANAH! I reckon a big part of the latter work was on the exploration of the racism topic in the United States of America. However, she did mention the desire of many Nigerians to move out of the country for change couldn't even be seen from afar, not to talk of greeting it. Another notable conversation: Ifeoma (mother): I sent my CV to Phillipa (who is in the U.S.) Chiaku (her friend): So you too, Ifeoma. Ifeoma: It's not about me, Chiaku. Chiaku: Who will teach Amaka and Obiora in university? The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break the cycle? Well, who will break the cycle? The cycle seems worse even now😢 However, THINGS FELL APART when Beatrice (Mama) poisoned Eugene (Papa) and Jaja told the authorities he had put rat poison in Papa's tea. He took the fall. Eugene told everybody she did it, but they thought grief and denial that are husband was dead had turned her vision. Jaja was imprisoned for 31 months. Eventually, it was found that half of Eugene's estate went to St. Agnes and to the fostering of missions in the church. Eugene had anonymously donated to the children's hospitals and motherless babies' hones and disabled veterans from the civil war☹️ If meaness and wickedness could be compared, I wouldn't know who would be more callous — Chinua Achebe's Okonkwo or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Eugene. This debut still remains relevant and will be for many years to come! #review #purplehibiscus #juveh #sammyjuveh #books #racism # https://www.instagram.com/p/Cggs-yJoefu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#throwbackthursday #purplehibiscus I desired to serve Nigeria as a youth corper in Igbo land, preferably Enugu state — courtesy of the writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Chinua Achebe influence, Chimamanda's and movies on "Africa Magic"😁 helped develop a passion in me to know more about the Igbo people and their culture. I reckon it was a dream (wish) that came to reality in an unexpected manner, for I lived with an Igbo man for a year as a colleague, compatriot, a brother, and a loyal friend during the service year. He taught me more about their culture and customs. My closest friends at my PPA were of the Igbo ethnicity. Those guys are wonderful☺️ Adichie's Purple Hibiscus is a breathtaking debut and I reckon she is very much the 21st—century daughter of the great novelist of African literature — Chinua Achebe Another breathtaking debut like that (maybe even better) is Arundhati Roy's THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. Purple Hibiscus will make anyone want to do better as a parent, for a lot of folks grew up in the same family system Jaja and Kambili grew. Plus the character "Aunty Ifeoma" is such to make you want to do better. Adichie ensured someone pictured how such experience could be described. And at a time when parenting, motherhood and fatherhood principles are becoming challenging and alarming, the essence of such a book as this written in African style and culture cannot be overemphasized. Yeah, it does shape your perception. Professor Femi Osofisan (Professor of Drama, University of Ibadan) wrote: "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, mines tragically, on the one 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 survive, however rescued by the love that binds the children to their mother, and the mother to her children." #juveh #sammyjuveh #review #books #debutnovel #purplehibiscus https://www.instagram.com/p/CgRrsDzIaG0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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