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Sozaboy

Sozaboy

Author(s): Ken Saro-Wiwa

Location(s): Nigeria

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Nigerian Civil War

Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author’s use of ‘rotten English’—a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and idiomatic English—makes this a unique and powerful novel

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