Book Review: Children of the Quicksands
- Amazing Grace L. Danso
- Mar 13
- 1 min read
Book Review: Children of the Quicksands
Author: Efua Traoré 🇳🇬🇩🇪
Type of work (Genre): Children’s Book
Number of pages: 248
Own or Borrowed: own, purchased from The WordPlayce Bookstore
Overall Impressions: I absolutely adored this book! A very creative and imaginative story about loss, grief, and adventure, that amplifies African traditional religious/spiritual beliefs and practices. The belief system highlighted in this book is the Ifá divination system with a focus on the goddesses Oshun and Oya. Our young hero Simi goes to great lengths to save a life and in the process, helps restores her communities waning faith in their traditional belief system. It was refreshing to read a story that didn’t demonize our African beliefs but treated them with respect, honor, and care.
Something that stood out: the author’s first name being a Nigerian name and not Ghanaian as I initially assumed when I grabbed the book from the shelf. Ghanaian “Efua” is a name given to Akan girls born on Friday while in the author’s case, the name comes from the Esan ethnic group in Southwestern Nigeria and means “light”. Pretty cool how our West African cultures have a lot in common. We are one people ultimately.
Overall Rating: 🖋🖋🖋🖋.5 (out of 5 fountain pens).
Recommend or nah: absolutely without reservation!
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