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Ogadinma

Or Everything Will Be All Right

ISBN-13: 9781911648161

Author(s): Ukamaka Olisakwe

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: The Indigo Press

Publisher Imprint: The Indigo Press

Publication Date: 10-09-2020

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£10.99
Ogadinma

About the book

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.