Waw, most people like me can only dream of Tanimu Umars near impossible to match credential of reading wide. I found Arthur Harleys final diagnosis and overload quite inspiring. So important was the nrrd to give medical student proper orientation in hospital setting and poltics that the University of Jos Mrdical bookshop was stocking final diagnosis on its counters. The biggest novel I evr read was James Michners Poland. I was able to cover the novel Poland wall to wall because I laid my hands on it during my lonely NYSC days as a Corper Doctor in rural area called Omor Akanator in the old Nteje LGA of Anambra state. Thev story of the feudal system of 17th century Europe, the count Lubonskis etc and their efforts to unite and fight the crumbling Ottoman Empire (1699 – 9 January 1792) was captured in this fictional tale. Of all the Nigerian novelists, my personal best is still Cyprian Ekwensi. His classic masterpiece the Passport of Mallam Iliya was something I grew up with and it was a favourite pastime for me and my friends to quote quite a proportion of it by heart. African Night entertainment (Hausa version Jiki Magayi) is one of the three novels I know by Mr Ekwensi that explore a culture outside his native Igbo cultural setting. I respect Chinue Achebes literary Masterpiece Things fall apart, but my all time favourite remains Cyprian Ekwensis. Mohammed Sules undesirable element and the deliquent as much as the wages of sin, bloodbath at Lobster close of the pacesetters series were memorable. Alhaji Abubakar Imams ruwan bagaja (Zurke dan Muhamman shi kuma ya ce himma dai dan Shehu), Magana Jari ce series and Tafiya Mabudin Ilmi were something of character sharpers for me. Amadi na mallam Ama (Na Dije maganin abu Allah,Bakar fura dakar Ibilisai, ana gama ki maigida na mutuwa. Wani abu sai na Dije) of So Aljannar duniya was a kind of comic character that we loved imitating growing up. Yes the reading culture is dying and the future generation has a lot of catching up to do.
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