Black Sunday

De: Tola Rotimi Abraham

Narrado por: Dele Ogundiran, Liz Femi, Miebaka Opuiyo-Yohannes, Ron Butler

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife and their father gambles away their home; the siblings are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins' paths diverge once the household shatters: one embracing modernity as the years pass, the other consumed by religion.

Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Black Sunday delves into the chaotic heart of family life. In the process, it tells a tale of grace in the midst of daily oppression and of how two women carve their own distinct paths of resistance.

©2020 Tola Rotimi Abraham (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd

Authentic

"Black Sunday" by Tola Rotimi Abraham, narrated well in authentic voice mirrors contemporary Nigeria perfectly. Abandoned by their father after their mother loses her important government job, Nigerian twin girl teenagers and their brothers move in with their grandmother. A story of survival, hope, and triumph in the midst of difficult years, tough choices. Sad but funny. Very difficult to put down.