28 books we grew up loving (and still do)

by Taqwa Ghazal

The World Book Day is a festival of literacy, celebrating and promoting healthy reading culture in children and adults.  For us, everyday is book day so to celebrate the power of the written word, we decided to make a list of 28 children books we fell in love while growing up.

1. Eze goes to school– Onuora Nzekwu and Michael Crowder

2. Chike and the river – Chinua Achebe

3. Anthills of the Savannah– Chinua Achebe

4. Things fall apart– Chinua Achebe

5. No longer at ease– Chinua Achebe

6. The Drum –Chinua Achebe

7. How the Leopard got its claws – Chinua Achebe

8. Without a silver spoon– Eddie Iroh

9. Sizwe Banzi is dead– Athol Fugard

10. The Drummer boy– Cyprian Ekwensi

11. The Passport of Mallam Ilia – Cyprian Ekwensi

12. Sugar girl – Kola Onadipe

13. Koku Baboni – Kola Onadipe

 

14. The Lion and the Jewel– Wole Soyinka

 

15. Everything good will come– Seffi Atta

16. The Famished road– Ben Okri

17. Efuru – Flora Nwapa

18. The Joys of motherhood –Buchi Emecheta

19. Weep not, child– Ngugi wa Thiong’o

20. The Incorruptible Judge– D Olu Olagoke

21. Double Trouble– Osman Conteh

22. The gods are not to blame– Ola Rotimi

23. The Second chance –Nyengi Koin

24. Ifeanyi and Obi– Charitas Onwu Otuyelu

25. The Beautyful ones are not yet born– Ayikwei Armah

26. A gift to the troubled tribe – Segun Okunoren

 

There’s also;

The Pot of Gold by Kola Onadipe

Ade, our naughty little brother by Christie Ade Ajayi

What books did you fall in love with and aren’t on this list?

 

Taqwa Ghazal writes for The Orderly Society Trust, a non-governmental organisation. The primary aim of The Orderly Society Trust is to nurture and support institutions, ideas, values, practices and conventions which support ‘order’ in society. You can find them here;

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