May 6, 20080
A review of Karen King-Aribisala’s The Hangman’s Game
by C.D. Valere
I just completed my reading of Karen King-Aribisala’s The Hangman’s Game. As you recall, last month it won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Regional Prize for Best Book (African region). The author is Guyanese-born, and lives in Nigeria. Here’s my (brief) review of The Hangman’s Game.
The novel is an interweaving of two tales of events leading up to, and shortly after societal upheavals in two countries. One is a tale of a slave revolt in Guyana (1823); the other is a tale of a coup in contemporary Nigeria. The narrator (a writer) is a Guyanese immigrant in Nigeria who is married to a Nigerian, and is pregnant with her second child. [Read more]