Festus Iyayi: Tribute To The Author Of Violence By Patrick Oguejiofor

By Patrick Oguejiofor Violence, the first literary work by Dr. Festus Iyayi and published in the Longman Drumbeats series in 1979 was one of the first novels I read as a young man just leaving High School. I will never forget the impact this novel had on me several years after I dropped it. Nor can I forget the striking similarity between Dr. Iyayis Violence and Meja Nwangis Going Down River Road, the latter having appeared in the now rested Heinemann African Writers Series, and a rival of the Longmans Drumbeats series. Violence is probably Festus Iyayis greatest work.read more
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