A teenage girl is seated next to her father in the house when she suddenly sees her boyfriend approaching. Knowing that her father is very strict, she decides to strike a conversation with the boyfriend.
Girl: Have you come to borrow the book titled “DAD IS IN THE HOUSE?” by Jean Pliya.
Boyfriend: No, I want your book of songs called “WHERE SHOULD I WAIT FOR YOU?” by Bernard Dadié.
Girl: Oh. I don’t have it, but I have the one titled “UNDER THE MANGO TREE” by Chinua Achebe.
Boyfriend: Good. But please don’t forget to bring “I WILL CALL YOU IN 5 MINUTES” by Aimé Césaire, when you come to school.
Girl: Ok. I will bring Olympe Bhêly-Quenum’s new book “I WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU.”
The father (to his daughter): these are a lot of books, will he read them all?
Girl: Yes. He is good and excellent reader.
The father: Ok. Don’t forget to take to him the book titled, “I AM NOT STUPID, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING” by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, and also the one which is called “BE READY TO GET MARRIED IF YOU GET PREGNANT” by Séverin Cécile Abega.
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Note: Jean Pliya, Bernard Dadié, Chinua Achebe, Aimé Césaire, Olympe Bhêly-Quenum, Séverin Cécile Abega, and Cheikh Hamidou Kane are all great African writers.
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See also: “Africa´s great loss, Chinua Achebe dead!” http://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/chinua-achebe-a-great-loss-but-africa-keeps-his-heritage-hopefully/
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Thanks for re-sharing with me… I really like the piece you have written on Chinua Achebe, and yes ‘Man of the People’ is one of my favorite books from him as well… He was such a great writer, and I have always felt that he should have gotten the Nobel Prize for Literature… but hey, for me he is one of the greatest African writers, and no Nobel can take away that fact.
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Even though I’ve never heard of those books or authors, the joke still works. Hahaha!
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Oh… these are not real books, but these are real African authors… it is just to joke.
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I figured they were real authors, but that makes it even funnier with them being fake books. Haha!
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