Yejide Kilanko
Autore di Daughters Who Walk This Path
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Fonte dell'immagine: blog, windsorstar
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1975-10
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Luogo di residenza
- "Chatham , Ontario, Canada"
- Istruzione
- University of Victoria , British Columbia, Canada, University of Windsor, Windsor ON, Canada,
- Breve biografia
- I was born October 1975 in Ibadan, a sprawling university city in south-western Nigeria. One of my fondest childhood memories was staring at the projector screen as my father showed slides from his travels across Australia and New Zealand. How I wanted to travel the world.
My love for reading just about anything I could lay my hands on, led to poetry writing when I was twelve. It was the best way I made sense of all those long, angst-filled teenage and young adult years that followed.
In the year 2000, after our big, loud, African wedding, I joined my husband in Laurel, Maryland. Over that decade, I stayed home to raise our three children, moved to Ontario, Canada and went back to university to become a Social Worker.
Since 2009, I've been very fortunate to work as a child protection worker, a crisis counsellor and currently as a therapist in children's mental health. Spending my day with children brings me joy. They truly have a lot to teach.
I currently live in scenic Chatham, Ontario with my family and I'm working hard on my next novel.
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Daughters Who Walk This Path: A Novel di Yejide Kilanko
Wonderful book, just wonderful!
Nigerian-born Kilanko has written a novel that really brings home some harsh realities of a nation plagued with violence, political unrest and an abhorrent abuse of power that knows no boundaries: The rape of female children by male members of their family/community known to them. For a debut novel, Kilanko manages to convey the good with the bad. The strength to move forward in the face of adversity. The ability to climb above and shine when the world seemed so dark and unfriendly. She also does a wonderful job presented a very conflicted Nigeria: A world of denim jeans and penny loafers, of university educations, of cell phones and expensive cars along with very traditional customs, beliefs and stigmas. The story follows Morayo over twenty years, starting when she was a young girl of five, greeting her albino sister into the world. The voice of the young Morayo is well done. I struggled a little bit with the older Morayo and found her less accessible as a character. Overall, this was a good read. It could have been a very depressing read given the events that play out, but Kilanko keeps a ray of light shining through the turbulence, as a reminder that even in the darkness, hope and belief in yourself can make a difference.… (altro)
this is an incredibly strong debut novel from a very talented writer! i found kilanko's style beautiful, and though she is dealing with some very difficult, heartbreaking subjects, i was left feeling hopeful at the end. i even had my eyes well up with tears twice in the last part of the story - something that is a fairly rare occurrence for me when i read. (kilanko is not sappy or sentimental, though.)
i think what is so powerful about this novel is the idea that, while the events are specific to the characters kilanko has created, the subjects are truly universal - particularly in regard to rape.(how kilanko portrayed the various reactions, behaviours, and emotions was, i thought, very well done.) there are some powerful, supportive women in daughters who walk this path, so the idea of an important network of female family and friends was something i truly enjoyed experiencing. the novel is set during contemporary times in nigeria, but there are still strong traditional values and tribal lines. many things continue to be a struggle for women, including their safety, and society is portrayed as quite patriarchal still.
and yet, there is hope.
note to remember: mentioned in the book is nadine gordimer's Burger's Daughter (noted as one of auntie morenike's favourite books). have to read that now.) :)… (altro)
i think what is so powerful about this novel is the idea that, while the events are specific to the characters kilanko has created, the subjects are truly universal - particularly in regard to rape.(how kilanko portrayed the various reactions, behaviours, and emotions was, i thought, very well done.) there are some powerful, supportive women in daughters who walk this path, so the idea of an important network of female family and friends was something i truly enjoyed experiencing. the novel is set during contemporary times in nigeria, but there are still strong traditional values and tribal lines. many things continue to be a struggle for women, including their safety, and society is portrayed as quite patriarchal still.
and yet, there is hope.
note to remember: mentioned in the book is nadine gordimer's Burger's Daughter (noted as one of auntie morenike's favourite books). have to read that now.) :)… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.This story follows the life of Morayo, a young girl growing up in the city of Ibadan. Her little sister Eniayo is albino, and she has to deal with a certain amount of ridicule and discrimination due to her condition, especially since it is believed that albino children bring bad luck, or are a symbol of God's punishment on the family.
There is a tragic event involving Morayo and her cousin Bros T which leaves her world shaken, but she recovers with the help of her aunt Morenike, who herself suffered a tragic event as a teenager.
I loved the way this book gave me a taste of the culture and lifestyles of the people of Nigeria. There is a formality to relationships, and I found myself sort of enamored with the way that the younger people bow down and prostrate themselves in greeting and respect to their elders. Even the way that wives and husbands refer to one another.
My final word: A sweet and tragic exploration of the Nigerian culture through the eyes of a young girl growing into a woman.… (altro)
There is a tragic event involving Morayo and her cousin Bros T which leaves her world shaken, but she recovers with the help of her aunt Morenike, who herself suffered a tragic event as a teenager.
I loved the way this book gave me a taste of the culture and lifestyles of the people of Nigeria. There is a formality to relationships, and I found myself sort of enamored with the way that the younger people bow down and prostrate themselves in greeting and respect to their elders. Even the way that wives and husbands refer to one another.
My final word: A sweet and tragic exploration of the Nigerian culture through the eyes of a young girl growing into a woman.… (altro)
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