TALES OF ÌYÁ OLÓBÌ: A MEMOIR OF WARMTH, WIT, AND THE WEIGHT OF NIGERIAN HISTORY
BY SINA KAWONISE.
Kayode Samuel’s Black Esther: Tales of Ìyá Olóbì is that rare book that makes you laugh out loud, nod knowingly, and then pause to sigh at the absurd beauty and contradictions of Nigeria. Ostensibly a tender, semi-autobiographical tribute to his formidable grandmother, the eponymous Ìyá Olóbì, it is also a sly excavation of Nigeria’s political…