A rich, fearless novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

A story about Enitan Taiwo and Sheri Bakare, two Nigerian girls in 1971, one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it.[...]

At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity, and when her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father's five-year memorial service, she finds herself tu[...]

Enitan växer upp i sjuttiotalets Nigeria där militärdiktaturerna avlöser varandra. Hon bor med sin mamma och pappa i en sömnig villaförort till Lagos. Där utstår Enitan sina föräldrars eviga gräl och är uttråkad. En sommardag dyker plötsligt grannflickan Sheri upp. Hon har läppstift, [...]