Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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What may be underreported in other reviews of this book, is the tendency of the fairer species to make terrible decisions where matters of the heart are concerned. That should not have been comfortable for her and anyone in her shoes would have done the right thing by reporting it to the school authorities. More than half of the time, women are on the receiving end of bad decisions and selfish acts by men.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It starts with a dedication that reads: “To you, and all devoted people inundated by the all-too-familiar phrase ‘Men are scum’.The stereotype of pointing fingers at the woman as being responsible for infertility in marriages finds its way into this novel as well. I finish all my books because when it comes to books I am optimistic, it may surprise me or end up being good ,there's always light at the end of a tunnel but this book, My very first DNF crushed that hope.

All in all, captivating read, very Nigerian, and funny in some places, also very sad if you're the sort to think about it.

Somehow, the author made Emmanuel the victim of her act of wickedness of reporting him and subjecting him to public humiliation. As a woman of African origin, I've heard all these crazy stories about men betraying the women they claim to love and respect. A player boy who gets tricked by an Instagram influencer but happens to find love in the most unexpected way and person.

A compelling read, but it gets two stars less from me: one for the use of "Nigerian English", and a second for a thoroughly misleading book title. Starr”, the author makes it known that the woman contributes nothing to the home as she follows her husband on all his tours and shows to ensure he doesn’t have baby mamas. This is collection of short stories, some of which were funny, some were not so funny, and a couple of sad ones in between.This to me is madness, that this man seems to get the victim position when they both are secretive and toxic to each other. Lagos of the Mad: Review of Damilare Kuku's Nearly all the Men in Lagos are Mad | Melony Akpoghene". Almost two years later, Ugochukwu Ugonna’s ‘Who Drove Nearly All the Men in Lagos Mad’ hits the market. Noting that the cause of infertility in the marriage is a result of the woman’s irresponsible lifestyle in her youth, the author then reveals that the man has tried his best not to cheat on her when he already brought in an official third party into the marriage.

In Kenya, we have street slang saying in Swahili, "soko ni chafu", loosely translated as "the market is dirty". The last page in the book felt like the author was patronizing ‘Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad’. As usual with short stories, I’m often left dissatisfied as I feel some stories could be explored more but I understood the stories for what they were and tried to enjoy them as such.It takes two to tango and since there was a third party in the marriage, Lisa should have been pregnant if he was so ‘fertile.