A Crooked Rib should be read alongside Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and Nawal el Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero as Africa’s ‘feminist’ narratives. Nuruddin was in Nairobi recently to celebrate the 50th anniversary of From a Crooked Rib at Cheche Bookshop, Lavington. AdvertisementOn the origins of From a Crooked Rib“… From a Crooked Rib is not my first novel. Well, I did not start off thinking that I would be able to do it (write From a Crooked Rib). In my second year, I had already written two novels by the time that I came to From a Crooked Rib.

Source: Daily Nation March 07, 2020 06:00 UTC