I really enjoyed this book. It is a pleasant and interesting story that gives a wonderful insight into daily life in an African village. It presents the culture in a respectful manner and allows the reader to appreciate the pleasures of life in this specific part of Africa. It also has a bit of mystery in the plot, so it is fun to read. I recommend it highly.

This book was ok. It was exciting at some parts. This is a good book for anyone who likes to read about mystery.

Once again Ms Emecheta has written a thought provoking and captivating book about domestic slavery in Nigeria. The setting is in Nigeria in the early 20th Century and wound around significant events of the time such as the Influenza epidemic, Aba market women's riot,colonization and arrival of the missionaries. The heroine a young girl is sold into slavery by her own brother after the death of their parents in the influenze epidemic. The story details the twists and turns in her life while in bondage, her eventual return to her people and subsequent events.

Though a novel, this tale shows the type of slavery that has continued to exist in Africa until very recently, and continues in some parts today. Emecheta presents a girl's predicament from a personal perspective, telling the reader both why slavery was seen as necessary and how it hurt this child. She also makes clear that this is a very different kind of slavery than that pictured by Americans. Well-written and only half fiction, this novel is a good read for anyone interested in West African culture.

This is a must read for all who seek to get the full perspective of what happened during the Biafra War (along with all the other books on the war. Not only men were involved in it, children, women and men were. And Emecheta finally gave a female perspective. Destination Biafra is frank, hard-hitting and much needed. It's also a great read.

Buchi Emecheta is a wonderful writer! This is the second book of hers that I have read. The books description "A lone Nigerian mother's determination to carve a place for herself against the odds." is a very fitting description. Adah struggle's are many, including the struggle of her identity and race. Who is Adah now that she lives in England and not in Africa? This is a well written book that encompasses the issues of race/color, poverty and identity. I would definately recommend this book. Especially to those who have ever struggled with the question of "who am I?".

Buchi Emecheta's novel captures attention from the very first page and it is most likely that any reader of post-colonial fiction will see the last page in just one go. Apart from Emecheta's mastery in reflecting the experiences of a Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s and 1970s, what appeals to the reader is the delicate sense of what Homi Bhabha calls "hybridity" that is professionally placed within the texture of the narrative. The Nigerian and the English worlds come together in the novel. For my part, I believe that "Kehinde" can well be read as a novel reflecting the cross-cultural adaptation of a Nigerian woman, who can no longer accept the values and the traditional social structures of her country of origin. Neither does she readily assimilate into the English culture. Rather she reconciles the two cultures. This is the story of how a bicultural identity is formed. Once Kehinde tastes freedom, then she can't be expected to accept marital slavery again. This is what her new identity requires and she finds spiritual balance and reconciliation in following the urges of her new bicultural self.

This is a quite compelling and captivating book that really makes you think.An un named African country in an idyllic setting is suddenly changed when Europeans escaping an impending nuclear war crash land. The twists and turns this story takes show how interaction between various peoples could either be positive or negative. A people's way of life was certainly changed.

A review of another of the author's books used the term "deceptively simple". I couldn't put it better about this story of a "civilized" culture happening upon a simpler, sheltered people. The story provides a perfect vehicle for the author to show not only how greed and prejudice poisons a people, but how all of us, in the "right" circumstances, can possess these qualities and let them overcome our better instincts.

I really loved this book and I recommend it to all students taking an engligh course you learn about africa and the differences among their people in comparison to things fall apart and a grain of wheat

The bride price is paid and a young Nigerian girl is sent off to Lagos to a man she has never met. She struggles through the years to bear his children. She feeds and clothes them, something her husband seems unwilling or unable to do so. He marries other women, yet is unwilling to give his first wife the honor she is due. In the end, he rejects her for his youngest wife, and she must return in shame to her family. This book is well worth reading to explore the conflicts of traditional life and colonial life in Nigeria, as well as many other African countries.

I had to read this book for my World Lit. class in college. I must say it is one of the best books I have ever read. Easy to follow from begining to end, I did not want to put it down. I recommend this to everyone.

Joys of Motherhood was one of the books I read for my Post Colonial African lit class, and I have to say it was my favourite novel on the course. I could barely put this book down. Emecheta rights in an engaging style that gets the reader wrapped up in the lives of the characters. I found myself cheering on Adaku, hating Oshia and wanting Nnu Ego to break free from the patriarchal system.

This is not the kind of book you read to see how it ends since you know from the beginning it will end in sadness. You read this book only to know the characters and their plight. It even gives you a look at how _men_ are victims of the patriarchal system as well. I fully recommend Joys of Motherhood to anyone who enjoys fully engaging characters.

The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta is an insightful novel into the life of the Ibo people of Nigeria. Although the novel made me angry when I read it, I enjoyed the novels historical correctness whether I like it or not this is the way women were treated at this point in time. This novel gave me a wake up call as to how far things have come sense this time. No longer are we objects to be inherited by our dead brothers relatives or destine to marry who our small town chooses for us whether we love then or not. The story I think would have had a much better ending if Aku-nna could have made it. So that she could prove her culture's old superstitions wrong. All in all, I would recommend this book to any one that would enjoy a good story. Also it is a quick read, the novel keeps you entertained by the use of vivid images and a direct story line to follow so no one can get lost. This novel is similar in nature to Things Fall Apart which has one character names Oknkowo which is also used in the Bride price, this might suggest that he was a real man from that culture.

I loved this book so much. I cried at the end. I read the end over and over again. It was soooooo beautiful. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to indulge in a romance and learn about another culture. This is the first book i have read by Ms. Emecheta and I hope to read many more.

The Bride Price is both an easy and enlightening read. Buchi Emecheta deftly captures the girl's adolescent fragility and power as she struggles to carve out her identity amongst the dictates of patriarchy, which her mother upholds to the point of betraying her own vulnerable daughter. ...

Ms Emecheta has in a way that is uniquely hers delivered a message about the double yoke of modernity and tradition. The setting is mainly the University of Calabar in Nigeria where the author also was a Professor. It is a coming of age story of two undergraduates who are in love. It deals with the choices they make under the circumstances. As a sub theme it details university life in Nigeria,love of strange titles and also a dubious counsellor and resultant betrayal. The events that occur in this book though a work of fiction are glaringly true.

Double Yoke is not simply an African novel, it is a timeless classic. The story of course is one of seemingly simplistic ideals: women in Postcolonial Africa have to bear the double burden of trying to remain culturally traditional while also trying to further themselves with education to be able to provide for their financial future. However, the author is actually writing about the need for males to change in order to more fully understand this modern African woman. No longer can African males hope to secure an innocent school girl and be satisfied with her limited ambitions. The modern African male must transform himself in order to satisfy himself and his mate. The need for a sexual revolution of the entire male species worldwide is what message this reader gained. The poetic prose and wonderful characters gift wrap the package containg this universal request.

For the first few pages of this book, I expected to dislike it - its language was awkward, much like a poor translation. However, once the story developed its own momentum, the language became natural, pleasant to read.

The book is an excellent story of coming of age in a changing culture - the elders seemingly fail to understand the youth that has some education. These youth are caught in the middle; they don't want to farm in the traditional way yet they lack sufficient education for it to provide employment. They are in the middle in another sense - they are the children of the civil war. This leads to their coming of age event to be a wrestling match rather than a dance. Quietly and wisely in the background, several village elders orchestrate the events to teach the youth a lesson - in war everyone loses.

While this novel is unlikely to become a world classic, it is well worth reading.

This book is excellent reading for high schoolers. It exposes the reader to a culture that they probably no little about. More importantly, it is a story about teenagers and their struggles as they try to find their place in the world.