The Concubine (littafi)

The Concubine shine littafi na farko na marubucin Najeriya Elechi Amadi wanda aka buga a shekarar 1966 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Heinemann African Writers Series .

An kafa shi a wani kauye mai nisa a Gabas Najeriya, wani yanki da har yanzu dabi'un Turai ba su shafa ba kuma inda al'umma ke da tsari da kuma tsinkaye, labarin ya shafi wata mace "mai kyau da mutunci" wacce ba da gangan ba ta kawo wahala da mutuwa ga duk masoyanta.

Littafin ya nuna al'umma har yanzu da alloli na gargajiya ke mulki, yana ba da haske game da dangantakar ɗan adam da irin wannan al'umma ke kirkira.

A lokacin da aka buga shi a Landan ta Heinemann Educational Books, an yaba da The Concubine a matsayin "mafi kyawun aikin farko" da kuma "a fitaccen aikin almara mai tsabta".Eustace Palmer, "Elechi Amadi and Flora Nwapa", African Literarture Today, no. 1, 1969, p. 56.Eldred Jones, "African Literature 1966-1967", African Forum, vol. 3, no. 1, p.5. Alastair Niven ne ya rubuta wani bincike mai mahimmanci game da littafin, wanda ya kira shi: "misali na yadda rashin ƙwarewa ko gwaji zai iya haifar da wani labari mai sauƙi.... An kafa shi sosai tsakanin ƙauyukan farauta da kamun kifi na Delta na Nijar, The Concubine duk da haka yana da rashin lokaci da kuma duniya na babban labari".Alastair Niven, A Critical View on Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine" (London, 1981), p. 7.

An sanya Concubine a cikin fim, wanda Elechi Amadi ya rubuta kuma darektan Nollywood Andy Amenechi ya ba da umarni; an fara fim din ne a Abuja a watan Maris na shekara ta 2007.Elechi Amadi website, videos. Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine 

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