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Waiting for an Angel

Waiting for an Angel

Author(s): Helon Habila

Location(s): Lagos

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): early 21st century

Lomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria’s brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he’s writing. Yet when his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn’t want, and his neighbours decide to hold a demo that is bound to lead to a riot, Lomba realizes that he can no longer bury his head in the sand. It’s time to write the truth about this reign of terror …

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