Sade Adeniran

Sade Adeniran (born 1960s) is a Nigerian novelist whose debut novel, Imagine This, won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa. Imagine This was originally self-published by the author. Based in London, she is also a filmmaker. Quotes I figured that it would be better to make all my rookie mistakes on More Cake rather than on Imagine. the most important thing is access. Access to finance, access to decision-makers who can greenlight projects and access to top talent who can help bring your project alive. The toughest challenge is to keep going in the face of overwhelming odds. Imagine This It was mean of him to expel her just because she didn't keep her legs closed. Maybe if I kept my legs open I'd also get expelled and Daddy would have to find me another school for me to go in Lagos Page 54 I went into the bushes to do a number two… I thought I had finished, but I could still feel something there so I used some leaves to wipe my bottom and there it was – a giant worm sticking out of my bottom! I screamed and started running with the worm dangling behind me… I stood there crying with my pants down, dress up and worm sticking out. Page 50 If someone dies every week or so for the next five years then I'll never go hungry again… Page 39 If hunger forces a farmer to eat both his yam tubers and his seed yams, the years to come will have no yams to eat and none to plant Page 47 The time has come for me to start my life Page 266 Why, why, why, why? I hate them all, I want to go home. I don't want to live with my Auntie, I don't want to live in Idogun. I want everything to go back to the way it once was, with Daddy, Adebola and me living at number 4 Egbecombe House. Page 4 "Whatever the dead man see in the burial ground is caused by death" A yoruba proverb. Page 4 It is a pity i don't have long hair or live in tower, I could've left strands of hair along the way, which my prince could have followed after to Idogun and we would have lived happily ever after Page 5 I was going to live with her and no amount of sobbing and begging was going to change his decision Page 5 External links Critical literature review Amazon Goodreads Internet Archive Category:living people Category:Women authors from Nigeria