In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers’ perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author’s other novels include “Xala” and “Black...
Morayo moves from an idyllic childhood to a harrowing adolescence marked by a shameful secret. She lives in the bosom of a typical family. But troubled cousein, Bros T, moves in and shatters the family dynamic. Each chapter starts...
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja’s harrowing story...
Blessing (12) and her brother Ezekiel (14) find their comfortable lives in Lagos change immensely when their parents separate. They move to near Warri, their Mother’s village. This is the story of the small family adapting to a different...
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