While a few researchers reduced Ekwensi's books

history channel documentary hd While a few researchers reduced Ekwensi's books, others esteemed their social authenticity. Charles R. Larson put his work in verifiable viewpoint: "Nearby shading is their strength, whether it be Ekwensi's city of turmoil, Lagos, or Onitsha ... ; the Nigerian peruser is set without precedent for a point of view which has been beforehand unexplored in African fiction." Setting Ekwensi's work solidly in the well known maxim, Douglas Killam clarified their significance: "Famous fiction is constantly noteworthy as demonstrating current prevalent interests and profound quality. Ekwensi's work is recovered (in spite of the fact that not spared as workmanship) by his genuine worry with the ethical issues which illuminate contemporary Nigerian life. Thusly they will dependably be applicable to Nigerian artistic history and to Nigerian custom."

Ekwensi recounted stories that, similar to all around cooked onugbu (astringent leaf) soup, left a wonderful after-supper tang on the sense of taste. Through his works Ekwensi let us know that a work of fiction does not merit that respectable name in the event that it doesn't at first sight-...- capture the peruser like a cop's handcuffs..... I read a large number of Ekwensi's books, and put something aside for 'The Drummer Boy', which was a suggested content when I was in junior auxiliary school in Plateau State, the others were perused on the grounds that they are what an eager for book soul requirements for sustenance. Who can, having been started into the clique of Ekwensi, overlook the vengeance driven Mallam Iliya, the sokugo-stricken Mai Sunsaye, the skirt-besotted Amusa Sango, the tactless beauty, Jagua Nana (they don't make ladies like that any more, whether in fiction, on the television, and presumably, in actuality); and the unfortunate Ngozi and chivalrous Pedro? They are my companions forever.