Book Note 1: TOMORROW I BECOME A WOMAN
Book by Aiwanose Odafen
“Uju, I understand what you’re saying,” Ada said, relaxing in her seat when she returned, “but there is life changing your behavior and there is thirty-six transformation”.
Happiness. Sadness. Brokenness. Broken heartedness. Friendship. Love
Roller coaster ride, that is it. This book sent me on a rollercoaster ride of emotions-
Selfishness. Sacrifice. Deprivation. Greed. Jealousy. Patriarchy. Stupidity. Gullibility.
- and I felt everything. Every single one of them.
Culture is a dynamic thing. Pretty amazing, vast, tightly woven. You see, I respect culture, really. But then let’s be really objective here.
Through this book, I realized how much culture facilitates many problems we’re struggling to abolish in our world today.
In it, I saw how culture facilitates gender inequality.
How it empowers patriarchy.
How it empowers social injustice, assaults, and prejudice.
How much power culture has to silence, empower ‘primitiveness’, and allow people reject common reason, compassion, and simple human feelings.
This book sent me on a rollercoaster of emotions, and I felt everything. Every single one of them.
To me, of our holistic story (as a nation), this is a fractional account of things that unites, and also separates us at the same time, over the years.
On a scale of 1–10, this book is definitely a 10/10 for every obvious reason.
Bolu Animashaun TCW
