May 20th Review

GENRE: SHORT STORY
TITLE: MAY 20TH
AUTHOR: KINGSLEY AARON ONUIGBO, NIGERIA
REVIEWER: BILDAD MAKORI, KENYA

The narrative on Africa's Leadership structure is one that has faced numerous challenges.

Since the time immemorial, men have always been occupying the top leadership positions.
But thanks to the "May 20th", a short story by Kingsley Aaron Onuigbo; this cliche narrative is seen to have changed, all thanks to a revolution!

The persona is a female president of the Republic of Nigeria. The better part of the short story sees her preparing and reading a speech as the president.

I really love how the writer has structured and arranged the short story. That is, the key highlight being the manner in which it has been written and how the setting is being presented to us. The whole story is from detailed accounts that were written in the persona's diary's event that took place on May 20th.

Nevertheless, had the lengthy account that happened in between 9.17AM to 12.06PM being shorter, it would have prevented a reader to easily lose track of the knowledge: that what we are reading, are diary accounts that occurred on that day.

But in general, May 20th is a well-structured and enjoyable short story that I urge especially ladies to read.