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A review by axmed
Prince of Monkeys by Nnamdi Ehirim
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
this book was good in many ways, with bangers like this from Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and political theorist Julius Nyerere (aun):
“Let’s see if you recognize these words—‘Africans had never aspired to wealth and status just for the sake of dominating his brothers. He had never had laborers to do his work for him till the foreign capitalists rowed up to the shore in their fancy boats. They were wealthy. They were powerful. And the African naturally started wanting to be wealthy too, which led to exploitation. There is now a need for Africans to re-educate themselves and regain their former sense of community. And so in rejecting the capitalist attitude of mind which colonialism brought into Africa, we must reject also the capitalist methods which go with it.’”
there were so many things in this novel that were clearly deeply thought through, but to then throw in harmful some anti-lgbt line in there in a very convoluted way and to let that stand, knowing what was going on on the African continent and more specifically in Nigeria, was such a terrible thing to do by a your author. and as always, people who have to intelect to take apart complicated dynamics resote to reactionary rhetoric when pushing harmful anti-lgbt or other rhetoric which is punching down at ppl already marginalized. examples that come to mind by celebrated authors are Chimamanda and J. K.
“Let’s see if you recognize these words—‘Africans had never aspired to wealth and status just for the sake of dominating his brothers. He had never had laborers to do his work for him till the foreign capitalists rowed up to the shore in their fancy boats. They were wealthy. They were powerful. And the African naturally started wanting to be wealthy too, which led to exploitation. There is now a need for Africans to re-educate themselves and regain their former sense of community. And so in rejecting the capitalist attitude of mind which colonialism brought into Africa, we must reject also the capitalist methods which go with it.’”
there were so many things in this novel that were clearly deeply thought through, but to then throw in harmful some anti-lgbt line in there in a very convoluted way and to let that stand, knowing what was going on on the African continent and more specifically in Nigeria, was such a terrible thing to do by a your author. and as always, people who have to intelect to take apart complicated dynamics resote to reactionary rhetoric when pushing harmful anti-lgbt or other rhetoric which is punching down at ppl already marginalized. examples that come to mind by celebrated authors are Chimamanda and J. K.