SAKADELLI 2 - Give Me A Break!

Book excerpt: In “Sakadelli 2 – Give Me A Break!”, the author, Uri Ngozichukwuka, blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between realism, fallacy, eccentrics, and fabulism. In this stirring collection of short stories written in verse, the author bends genre to shape remarkable narratives that map the realities of society and people’s lives. A young girl goes through the motions with the wildest cravings, from the bow to the knocked in Bizarre Imitations;yet another with empty arms narrowly escapes One Chance. In contrast, some ladies’ surgery-induced large buttocks introduce a mean body guest. And in the bravura narrative, “Give Me A Break!”, an image reaches in to fix what words and actions are so challenged to achieve. Even as That Neighbour has Ignorance Gone On Rampage, Adesina Street unveils popping episodes of the societal good, the bad and the ugly, and through it all, I Stayed Glued in awe of the great feats of Nollywood, doling out credits where due. Direct and uninhibited, bizarre and sassy, hilarious and serious, “Sakadelli 2 - Give Me A Break!” swings from the light-hearted to the most delicate sentiments.