Yellow-Yellow

By Kaine Agary

Zilayefa, a young girl of Greek and Nigerian parentage, leaves her rustic existence and the protective grip of her mother in the village, in search of a better life in the city. With a recommendation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780708332
• ISBN13: 9789780708337
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Dtalkshop
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A Tale... An Education...An Experience

"What happened?" "Oil" These words, in the opening chapter of Yellow-Yellow, are in a nutshell the story of Zilafeya. Agary's novel tells the story of a young girl from the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria. Her mother's attempts to make a living destroyed by oil - pollution and spills - Zilafeya leaves the village of her birth to seek a better life for herself in Port Harcourt. As we follow Zilafeya on her naive journey, our eyes are opened to many aspects of Nigerian Delta life and how oil has happened to it - to the environment, to the pockets of multi-nationals and politicians, and to the villagers who try to make a life out of the oil-soaked land. Once I started reading the book, I couldn't put it down. Agary's descriptive writing style makes the story real, without being preachy about the situation in and history of this region. It's a book that you will want to pass on to your friends when they ask you for a good book to read. It's a book that you will quote when having conversations about relationships, about nigeria, about oil. I LOVED IT!!! can you tell?