Nsukka

• Setting of Suku


  • Where Aunty Ifeoma's home is
  • Where she lives with her children Amaka, Obiora, and Chima
  • Aunty Ifeoma is Papa Eugene's sister
  • Papa Eugene doesn't like his children hanging out with Aunty Ifeoma's children
• When Kambili and Jaja visit Suku


  They experience freedom for the first time
• Suku


  • Synonymous with freedom
  • Freedom of speech
  • Freedom of thought
  • Intellectualism and debates about the state of Nigeria
  • Religious freedom
  • Challenging of authority
• What's happening on the university campus in Suku


  Represents what's happening across Nigeria - people are fed up with lack of basic necessities like running water, electricity, etc.
• Authorities' response to Aunty Ifeoma's outspokenness


  1. Send police/military police to search her home

  2. Throw clothes and other items on the floor

  3. Overturn boxes
• Aunty Ifeoma's family's decision to move to the USA


  To escape the lack of freedom of speech and authoritarian state
• Key differences between Suku and Enugu


  • Control vs freedom
  • Silence vs speech
  • Father Benedict vs Father Amadi
  • Patriarch Papa Eugene vs matriarch Aunty Ifeoma
  • Wealth in Enugu vs poverty in Suku