ABSTRACT
Imagine This is the story of a girl, Lola, who is born in the UK to Nigerian parents but grows up in Nigeria. In early childhood, Lola's talent and passion for creative writing are evident. "Power is for adolescents an issue of peculiar vividness. Moving from impotence of childhood, fantasizing vast resources of adulthood, they feel with anguish the limitations on what they can do, what they are allowed to do, how much they can affect the world". Moreover, because she has a space in which express her goals and someone direct them to, Lola has hope. Adeniran's novel is unique due to its writing girl who narrates about the present, whereas girl narrator in Brew-Hammond's book Powder Necklace narrates about the past. Both these novels are part of emerging trend; in preface to her 2004 contemporary African fiction anthology, Adele King contends that in African stories, first-person narratives are becoming more prevalent, as is "use of self-reflecting fiction techniques".
