O. Folaranmi

My Worst Audio Book Purchase Ever!

Revisado: 12-10-21

Listening to this audio book is one painful 21+ hours of torture for any Nigerian listener. There were a lot of Nigerian names of people, places and things used in this book, as well as a handful of common phrases, slangs and idioms, and the narrator mis-pronounced every single one. I mean, every single one! Very pathetic!

For a professional project of this nature, one would think that the producers would do one of the following:
1. Get a narrator that is familiar with most, if not all of the non-English words and phrases used in the book
2. Get the narrator to learn the correct pronunciation of the words - it was very obvious that the narrator made absolutely no efforts to learn how to pronounce any of the non-English words, as he felt he could just pronounce every word and name as if they were English words
3. As a last resort, encourage the Author to narrate his own work - it would have been a great joy listening to Professor Wole Soyinka himself

The narrator, though has a Nigerian surname, obviously had no Nigerian background nor familiarity with Nigerian names of any kind. Even foreigners would have done a better job of pronouncing the names of some of the cities and common slangs used in the book - I mean, how hard is it to pronounce correctly "Ibadan", "Oyo", or even "ogogoro", just to name a few?
It is highly recommended that this audio book be reproduced using a more suitable narrator that is fit for the purpose. This audio book would have been a lot more enjoyable, and the story rated higher if one had been able to hear the works correctly.
For the Nigerian readers out there, I would recommend that you buy and read the printed copy for yourself at this time. Don't spoil your listening pleasure!

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