Yellow-Yellow

Zilayefa grows up in a Niger Delta village damaged by the oil industry, where the young men's answer is armed resistance. Raised by her mother alone, with a father she has never known, she belongs to a small community of mixed-race children of single mothers. Determined not to repeat her mother's life, she leaves for Port Harcourt and finds a place among a circle of sophisticated women. In the city she is drawn to older men who act as father figures, and she has to work out what her freedom will cost. The story ties a young woman's growing sense of herself to the history of the Delta and the exploitation of its people.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

179 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Nigeria

First published

2006 by Dtalkshop

ISBN

9789780708337 (Dtalkshop, Nigeria)

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