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Wole Soyinka- one of the greatest writers Africa, and the world has ever seen. First African Nobel laureate. Celebrated poet. But also a sublime novelist, as this work proves. Actually the great man wrote this his debut novel many decades ago when he was still a young man. Here we concentrate on a c Leggi tutto

Kind of difficult for me to get into at first, set in Nigeria, following a group of Nigerian young professionals as they try to figure out how to be the Western educated people in a post-colonial Nigeria that is split and schizophrenic culturally from the divides between its history, its indiginous

صورة أفريقية عريضة وعريضة جدا عن التقاء الأفارقة بالحداثة والاستقلال.. مملة أحيانا والترجمة غير دقيقة أحيانا

حاولت جاهدا أن أجاريها، لم أستطع.. هل السبب المؤلف و اسلوبه ؟ أم المترجم ؟ لا أدري !!

Wole Soyinka is a very fascinating writer who has seen it all, done it all in literature over the decades. His books, the language is quite difficult but very rewarding. We don't have to understand every single passage or paragraph he writes, anyway. One thing I appreciate about his works is the wa

Che romanzo faticoso. Con la peggiore traduzione in cui mi sia mai imbattuta. La storia narra di un gruppo di giovani nigeriani che rientrano in patria dopo aver studiato e lavorato all'estero. Siamo in piena decolonizzazione, ma i ragazzi, seri e pieni di speranza per una patria nuova, si scontreran Leggi tutto

The whole Wole. I’m sure it’s possible to read The Interpreters as a representative narrative of postcolonial Nigeria’s sociopolitical climate and the Biafran War. With a little effort we could fit each protagonist into some archetypical mentality inherited from colonial elitism. Like I notice other Leggi tutto