A young man learns how to love in a hostile world in this debut from Nigeria Nigeria's literary canon in English is a rich and ever-evolving archive, ranging fromChinua Achebe's cornerstone Things Fall Apart to Buchi Emecheta's moving lamentations on immigrant life in 1960s London; from Ben Okri's dreamscapes to the colourful comedy of Lola Shoneyin's 2010 novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives. Thistreasure trove is often a point ofdeparture for the nation's younger writers, with intertext...
A young man learns how to love in a hostile world in this debut from Nigeria Nigeria's literary canon in English is a rich and ever-evolving archive, ranging fromChinua Achebe's cornerstone Things Fall Apart to Buchi Emecheta's moving lamentations on immigrant life in 1960s London; from Ben Okri's dreamscapes to the colourful comedy of Lola Shoneyin's 2010 novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives. Thistreasure trove is often a point ofdeparture for the nation's younger writers, with intertext...
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