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The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives Rotimi Babatunde

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives By Rotimi Babatunde

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Rotimi Babatunde


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Summary

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyins bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptation by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives Summary

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Rotimi Babatunde

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyins bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptation by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde. Men are like yam, you cut them how you like. Baba Segi has three wives, seven children, and a mansion filled with riches. But now he has his eyes on Bolanle, a young university graduate wise to lifes misfortunes. When Bolanle responds to Baba Segis advances, she unwittingly uncovers a secret which threatens to rock his patriarchal household to the core.

About Rotimi Babatunde

Lola Shoneyin's work includes her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, which was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and went on to win the PEN Oakland 2011 Josephine Miles Literary Award and the 2011 Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize. Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerian writer and playwright. In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region. In 2012, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Bombay Republic.

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GOR010067108
9781786825513
1786825511
The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Rotimi Babatunde
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018-06-07
96
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