If Nigerian Writers Had a WhatsApp Group...

Group Name: Authors Anonymous --- Chinua Achebe created the group. Achebe:Good evening, everyone. Let's avoid anything that will make Things Fall Apart. --- Wole Soyinka:Good evening. First question...Who crowned you admin? --- Achebe:A Man of the People naturally leads. --- Soyinka:Interesting. --- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:Can we all contribute?Let's avoid The Danger of a Single Story. --- Ben Okri:I'm online... But spiritually, I'm still on The Famished Road. --- Buchi Emecheta:You people can laugh. Some of us are still recovering from The Joys of Motherhood. --- Flora Nwapa:Tell them. Even Efuru is tired. --- Cyprian Ekwensi:Sorry I'm late. Traffic from People of the City. --- Helon Habila:Was there oil on the road? Or was it Oil on Water again? --- 😂😂😂 --- Soyinka:Can we discuss serious literature? --- Achebe:Only if nobody starts acting like Anthills of the Savannah. --- Chimamanda:Relax. We're all under one Half of a Yellow Sun. --- Soyinka:That sentence was too soft. --- Achebe:You're never at ease. --- Everyone:😂😂😂😂 --- Emmanuel Daniji joined using invite link. --- Achebe:Young man... Introduce yourself. --- Emmanuel Daniji:I'm just here with... The Lecherous Journal. --- Buchi Emecheta:That title already sounds suspicious. 😂😂😂 --- Chimamanda:What's inside the journal? --- Emmanuel Daniji:Stories Nigerians pretend not to know... ...but somehow know every detail. --- Everyone:🤣🤣🤣 --- Soyinka:And what else have you written? --- Emmanuel Daniji:Love Lyrics & Lies. --- Ben Okri:That sounds like every relationship after month three. --- Cyprian Ekwensi:Or every talking stage. --- 😂😂😂 --- Achebe:Anything else? --- Emmanuel Daniji:Abiodun's Wahala. --- Entire Group:Now THAT sounds Nigerian. 😂😂😂😂 --- Soyinka:What's it about? --- Emmanuel Daniji:A man who genuinely wants peace... ...but somehow keeps finding premium problems. --- Achebe:That's not fiction. That's Lagos. --- 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 --- Chimamanda:I would read that. --- Buchi Emecheta:Me too. --- Ben Okri:As long as Abiodun doesn't enter The Famished Road. --- Cyprian Ekwensi:Or meet Jagua Nana. --- Everyone:😭😭😭😂😂😂 --- Soyinka:Young man... One advice. Don't let success get into your head. --- Achebe:Exactly. Because that's how... Things Fall Apart. --- Group Description changed: "Every book starts with a title... but every title begins with a story." <h2>--- </h2><h2>My TwoCents</h2> Some titles become books. Some books become culture. Long before social media gave us captions, Nigerian writers had already mastered the art of saying everything in just a few words. Things Fall Apart. The Joys of Motherhood. Half of a Yellow Sun. Purple Hibiscus. Titles that don't just introduce stories, they become part of everyday conversation. Perhaps that's the true test of a great writer. Years after the last page is turned, people are still quoting your title... even if they've forgotten where they first read it. And maybe, just maybe, every writer secretly hopes that one day someone will casually say, "Have you read Abiodun's Wahala?" with the same familiarity. Because books don't become timeless overnight. They become timeless one conversation at a time.

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