🇳🇬 Book~Review 🇳🇬
Efuru is a book that reminds of the good old days of listening to good stories and reads, in traditional settings (sorry I'm sounding like someone in his 40s, but I feel that way 😹).
The themes, cut across Motherhood, culture and tradition, female circumcision, marriage, patriarchy, gender roles, sexism, colonialism, ignorance, human behavioral and religion.
On the aspect of religion, it reminds me of the conversation I had with my dad on the aspect of how crime was minimal back in the olden days due to the fear and anger of their deity. And to be frank, I wish that fully exist in this Abrahamic religion era.
This read, reminds me of the issue I have with churches organizing programs and crusade for women, forgetting it's not all about them (impotent men are there too), we don't get to see that regularly.
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From the foeward, it was written that Flora Nwapa did not subscribe to the Western label of feminism.
And one of the reason am happy to read this female African literature was because, it was published at the period in which male African lit was dominated.
🦋Efuru gave a beautiful representation, that been a woman is more than just getting married and housing babies.
Ratings;
4 🌟 was it but the ending made it 3.5 🌟.
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Efuru by Flora Nwapa is the book of the month for Indulgentbibliophile bookckub.
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