‘Things Fall Apart’, a novel by Chinua Achebe was among the books listed by former US president Barack Obama on his ‘Best of 2018 List’.
The former president who published the list on his Facebook page on Friday also listed songs and movies he enjoyed watching.
‘Americanah’, a 2013 novel by Chimamanda Adichie, was the second Nigerian work to make the list.
“As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favourite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists. It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved,” he wrote on Facebook.
Here are books the trained lawyer listed:
- Becoming by Michelle Obama (obviously my favourite!)
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
- In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
- The Return by Hisham Matar
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
- The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
- American Prison by Shane Bauer
- Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- Feel Free by Zadie Smith
- Florida by Lauren Groff
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
- Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
He listed his 2018 favourite movies as:
- Annihilation
- Black Panther
- BlacKkKlansman
- Blindspotting
- Burning
- The Death of Stalin
- Eighth Grade
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Leave No Trace
- Minding the Gap
- The Rider
- Roma
- Shoplifters
- Support the Girls
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor
J.Cole, Cardi B, The Carters and Janelle Monáe were some of the artistes whose songs made it to the song category of the list.
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Interesting;
And he forgort to add or intentionally omitted from his favorite list, the movie going on in the Nigerian Enclave that bears his finger print.
“THE KILLING FIELD”
That the man he “Obama” installed on his purported intergrity according to “Obama” in 2015, Mohammadu Buhari , but who´s biological identity one can no more ascertain at the momment, is making for Obama´s dear entertainment in the Nigerian Enclave.
Please update your list Sir !