The setting is Western Nigeria of the early 80s, when most Nigerians maintained vegetable gardens close to their homes, men rode Vespa motorcycles for leisure; when public schools were as good as the private ones.
It was the days of Kingsway and Leventis, and Odutola stores in Ijebu Ode. The days without traffic gridlocks, when parents returned home early enough from the office, to be involved in their children’s growth.
According to Treasure, “Memories of Grandma is a collection of stories about my childhood. It’s about the world I grew up in and at whose feet I drank the water of knowledge and wisdom. It is set in the Nigeria of the 1980s. I don’t know about recent times, but back in the days when we resumed from holidays, our teachers made us write a generic kind of essay usually titled: How I spent my last holiday.
“Memories of Grandma speaks to the need for a child to familiarise herself with her cultural environment. It is about a child’s search for the reasons things are the way they are in her culture. It is a book about how a network of people and places united to feed the curiosity of a child.
“It captures food, music, transportation, farming, life in the country side and respect for elders, . There are more lessons in Memories of Grandma, individuals will have to appropriate those lessons according to their needs. I must also add that adults will find Memories of Grandma fascinating because it will definitely take them to their places of childhood and fill them with nostalgia.”
