Sade Adeniran
Nigerian novelist
Sade Adeniran (born 1960s) is a Nigerian novelist whose debut novel, Imagine This, won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa. Imagine This was originally self-published by the author. Based in London, she is also a filmmaker.
Quotes
edit- I figured that it would be better to make all my rookie mistakes on More Cake rather than on Imagine.
- the most important thing is access. Access to finance, access to decision-makers who can greenlight projects and access to top talent who can help bring your project alive.
- The toughest challenge is to keep going in the face of overwhelming odds.
Imagine This
edit- It was mean of him to expel her just because she didn't keep her legs closed. Maybe if I kept my legs open I'd also get expelled and Daddy would have to find me another school for me to go in Lagos
- Page 54
- I went into the bushes to do a number two… I thought I had finished, but I could still feel something there so I used some leaves to wipe my bottom and there it was – a giant worm sticking out of my bottom! I screamed and started running with the worm dangling behind me… I stood there crying with my pants down, dress up and worm sticking out.
- Page 50
- If someone dies every week or so for the next five years then I'll never go hungry again…
- Page 39
- If hunger forces a farmer to eat both his yam tubers and his seed yams, the years to come will have no yams to eat and none to plant
- Page 47
- The time has come for me to start my life
- Page 266
- Why, why, why, why? I hate them all, I want to go home. I don't want to live with my Auntie, I don't want to live in Idogun. I want everything to go back to the way it once was, with Daddy, Adebola and me living at number 4 Egbecombe House.
- Page 4
- "Whatever the dead man see in the burial ground is caused by death"
- A yoruba proverb. Page 4
- It is a pity i don't have long hair or live in tower, I could've left strands of hair along the way, which my prince could have followed after to Idogun and we would have lived happily ever after
- Page 5
- I was going to live with her and no amount of sobbing and begging was going to change his decision
- Page 5
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