Ogadinma

Name: Ogadinma
Brand: The Indigo Press
SKU: 9781911648161
Price: 2000 KES
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ISBN: 9781911648161

by Ukamaka Olisakwe

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1911648160

ISBN-13 9781911648161

Publisher The Indigo Press

Imprint The Indigo Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 10th, 2020

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 252 grams

Dimensions 13.10 x 19.60 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Family saga / generational saga fiction Sagas Feminism and feminist theory Feminism & feminist theory

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After an episode of abuse results in exile from her family in Kano, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt’s house in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable.

A modern feminist classic in the making from a rising star of the nigerian literature scene. Ogadinma or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naive and trusting Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria''s societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt''s in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man. As their whirlwind romance descends into abuse and indignity, Ogadinma is forced to channel her independence and resourcefulness to escape a fate which appears all but inevitable. Ogadinma, the UK debut by Ukamaka Olisakwe, introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root, and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience.

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