Double Yoke

Double Yoke is a 1982 novel written by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta.

Ete Kamba, a young boy who is expected to become a man of substance meets Nko at a party for Arit, her cousin, a girl who had graduated from her hairdressing apprenticeship program.

D. A. N. Jones wrote in the London Review of Books: "Buchi Emecheta’s novel is dedicated to her 1981 students at the University of Calabar.

Double Yoke is a tale of student life at that university and evidently the teacher has learned a great deal from her pupils, pulling out passages from their essays and exercises to make her own point about their lives and ideas.

... Miss Emecheta is happy to halt her pacey narrative and tell the reader bluntly what she thinks of her characters and life in general.