?Book: Yellow-Yellow????????????? ?
?Author:?Kaine Agary???????????????
?Year of publication: 2006??????? ?
?Pages :179???????????????????????????????
?Reviewer : Felix Omoh-Asun???

The novel, Yellow-Yellow, written by Kaine Agary is another creative way of drawing attention to the Niger Delta question. The book takes a panoramic excursion into the lives of communities in the oil rich region, especially that of the Ijaw Nation. For a writer who hails from Rivers State, Agary touches on a wide range of issues bothering on oil exploration and exploitation, the economic and social consequences, in the region in recent time. The book comes as a remainder to the agony that the host communities are facing where millions of barrels of the Nigeria's black gold is being
explored.

In an elegance narrative, Zilayefa, a young girl of Greek and Nigerian parentage personifies the theme of blood for oil tragedy, and the indifference by the oil companies and the government to the plight of the riverine communities. She juxtaposes innocence with corruption, communal existence with the city,
the irony of living by the riverside, but without water to drink, while questioning the gift of oil when the rewards to the goose that lays the golden egg are spillage, pollution and murder of nature. From the innocence of Zilayefa who lives in the protective grip of her mother in the oil rich rustic village on the fringe of Port Harcourt city while looking forward to a fulfilled life outside her community, the novel dwells on the destructive influences of city life where money is the only language every one understands.