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Review: In The Name Of Our Father By Olukorede S. Yishau is a classic and fascinating presentation of a debutant novel that presents two parallel stories rolled into one.
This is clearly a table shaking novel, and I must say that the author attempted to trek on a path which some angels even feared to walk on.
“The centre began not to hold for me when I decided to mount another pedestal. Until then, journalism was what I choose to pursue, but after a while, something else began to pursue me. It was beautiful and marvellous in my sight, but without form and void.”
In his debut novel,’ In The Name Of Our Father’, Olukorede S. Yishau delivers two stories for the price of one.
I got this book on a whim from @adampages sometime last year because I loved the title and the cover, but I didn’t get around to reading it until I saw a quote from an interview the author granted, where he stated that: “My debut novel ‘ In The Name Of Our Father ‘ is certainly not innocent. It is meant to shake tables.”
And by Jove, he did shake tables!! So many ‘men of God’ as they are fondly called in Nigeria are solidly balanced this table Olukorede Yishau is shaking.
Description:
Title: In The Name Of Our Father
Author: Olukorede Yishau
Genre: Nigerian Fiction
Number of Pages: 252
Published By: Parresia Publishers
Year Of Publication: 2018
The subject matter of the novel is not a new one. It is one that we can all easily relate to. As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I’m sure that a lot of people must have at one point or the other experienced, or heard about at least one fake pastor and all the evil antics they get up to, defiling the altar and scamming gullible people of their hard-earned money, all ‘ In The Name Of Our Father ‘
Set in that horrible time in Nigeria’s history when we were under the rule of a military dictator, the novel kicks off with the narration of a journalist, Justus Omoeko who decided that he wanted to add the title “author” to his accomplishments.
He proceeds to write a novella titled ‘ANGELS LIVE IN HEAVEN ‘, about a fake man of God, Prophet T.C Joshua who has the Commander in Chief, General Sani Idoti in his back pocket.
This decision of his would turn out to be the catalyst that will pry open Pandora’s box of everything bad that will happen to Justus in this novel.
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The language of the novel is pretty simple and straightforward; dotted with allusions to the bible, with just the right amount of biblical quotes.
I loved that each chapter had a title that gives the reader some sort of hint of what is to come: Harbinger of Storms, There was a pregnancy, The storm and so on.
However, I had a problem with the execution of the end. It felt like the author was in a hurry to just end the book and didn’t remember to properly tie up the loose ends.
For me, it’s a 🌟🌟🌟 .
