Title: An interesting book
Product review: I read this book because I wanted to become familiar with African literature, as all the books that I have read so far were written by European or Latin-American writers. I have also seen this book in many of the 100 Best books lists.The book is well written and the customs of the people of Nigeria in the 1800's are described with very good detail especially those related to the food and respect to traditions.However what I think is the main value of this book is the sad ending of the main character, Okwonko, who seemed to rule his life with the only purpose of not being like his father by keeping always what he believed was a "manly" demeanor. Sadly, I did not see any change in his attitude throughout the book as many decisive events happen in the course of his life.As a Mexican I cannot keep from finding very parallelisms with the coming of the missionaries to Nigeria that is described in this book, with the destroy of the Aztec empire by the Spanish conquerors
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