RUFFLED BUTTERFLIES BY AYOTUNDE MAMUDU PARRESIA PUBLISHERS LTD 2019

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RUFFLED BUTTERFLIES
BY AYOTUNDE MAMUDU
BOOK REVIEW


The book RUFFLED BUTTERFLIES is a 146 page book, divided into 13 short stories. The author’s style of writing can be described as comical and he also generously employs the use of paronomasias and incorporates metaphors among other figures of speech. Even though every theme attempts to address a particular issue and in some cases a particular personality trait, the reader may even identify him/herself in one of the characters of these short stories. The stories presented in this book can be related to every aspect of life. The more one read's the book the more engrossed one gets and the more one understands the theme, style, setting and plot.

Among all the stories, I think I personally connected more with the one entitled ELECTRONIC LISTS, especially where he wrote about some glaring realities of our everyday lives as citizens of Nigeria, he portrayed the realities so well that every Nigerian can identify with, such as where he wrote “the potholes were indiscernible, and a miscalculation could see him losing his exhaust pipe in the mud. He felt the bottom plate of the car grate against the bumpy road and it felt like it was his belly rubbing against the hard road”. Coincidentally, in the next paragraph he wrote about the garbage heaps sprawling in every nook and cranny of the country, everywhere as well as the unwholesome acts of excreting in the open by children supervised by their complicit mothers. Then the new wave of craze for football betting, which he termed “the bettors or football investors”.

The author attempts to capture the ever dynamic and challenging world that exists within African albeit Nigerian culture especially as it relates to marriage and family, to this end, each story comes with its morals, its lessons and values and mostly on a positive note, thereby sending a positive message to the readers. I personally found it a very interesting read and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a Nigerian novel with plenty of comic reliefs to savour.
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