Two words, Pissed and Disappointed.
Picking up this book, I knew I was in for a ride, but I didn’t know how agonizing that ride was going to be. I’m so sad for Adah, she deserved better, and as for her husband, the little said about him, the better.
Second Class Citizen is a masterpiece written by Buchi Emecheta that speaks about racism, prejudice, internalized inferiority, marriage, abuse, misogyny, and other societal issues.
This novel follows the life of Adah, a young girl who had a dream and did everything humanly possible for it to come through. They say if your dream doesn’t scare you, then you are not dreaming,
From Lagos to London, Adah’s journey was sour and painful, from struggling to gain an education as a girl child when girls were only seen as cooks and baby producing machines to marrying an immature mummy’s boy and finally living in an extremely racist city.
Was her dream too big? Was she too ambitious?
One thing that hit me in this book was how the minds of the black people living in the UK at that time were conditioned. It was like they were made to believe that they were lesser humans and that the white person was better than them.
That’s why I always say that the British succeeded in colonizing a lot of countries than their other European counterparts because they tackled the mind and not just the possessing lands and resources. They were definitely the real definition of the ‘whole package’.
It was quite fast-paced, and that’s one thing I loved about the storytelling. It gave you what you needed and nothing else.
Overall this is a great one, and I absolutely loved it!
