Chika Unigwe
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed 'man of God' who seems to offer all the answers. But instead of building a better future with him, Nani...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Raw, vivid and suffused with the power of the oral story-telling tradition, 'On Black Sisters' Street' is a moving story of the illusion of the West through African eyes, and its annihilation. It is also, however, a story of courage, of unity and of hope.