Bananas in the Rafters: An African Classic

Bananas in the Rafters sweeps the ardent young reader into a youthful adventure filled with great ethnic and cultural awakening set within a world that has been misrepresented for centuries to many a non-African born child. Focusing on a small town located in a fictional West African nation the children of Saint Pauls Parish come alive once more after their celebration in The Christmas Hut (also by the author) to share an important period in their lives while growing up in a part of the world within a continent that is often tainted with massive socioeconomic setbacks and underdevelopment. Bananas in the rafters focuses on families leaders children and average citizens living within a community that operates within a grander culture of tribes separated traditionally by religion and culturally by dialects yet strongly united by nationality as one people. Its captivating text educates the young reader about a world out there where the author once thrived as a child as it uniquely weaves an enlightening variety of subject matters from the yarns of family values education and individual life experiences while sparingly dipping them into rigid realistic dyes of colonization independence revolutions and an aspiring fight for national stability before spinning them on looms that strengthen the stitching of history education and development together in order to produce the best sociocultural fabric fit for the prospective wholesome blooming of the growing child. It is indeed the ultimate book tailored for this progressive era of cultural awareness and ethnic embrace. For within its pages the readers imagination as well as eyes are open into the original workings of the African culture in a far more practical way than has ever been made literarily tasteful and readily accessible to any African-authored young adult reader.