nigeria Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/nigeria/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:41:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg nigeria Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/nigeria/ 32 32 38398750 Under the Udala Trees https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/under-the-udala-trees/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/under-the-udala-trees/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:18:28 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4462   In Under the Udala Trees Ijeoma is only twelve years old when the civil war in Nigeria begins and her mother must leave her behind while she tries to establish a life for them in the north, a safer part of the country. It is 1968 and they live in Biafra, a southern state […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/under-the-udala-trees/feed/ 6 4462 Americanah https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/americanah/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/americanah/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:21:25 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4094 Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love when they are teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria. As the time comes for college and moving on they know that they have no wish to stay in Nigeria. Ifemelu gets into a school in the United States and Obinze goes to London. While this may sound straightforward it is anything […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/americanah/feed/ 5 4094 Mr. and Mrs. Doctor https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/mr-and-mrs-doctor/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/mr-and-mrs-doctor/#comments Wed, 13 May 2015 07:11:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3998   Job’s father sends him from their homeland in Nigeria to America to study to become a doctor. Instead of doing so, Job flunks out of college but continues to tell everyone he is still studying. At twenty-four he uses some of the tuition money on a green card marriage thus ensuring he never has […]

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