Swallow (Sefi Atta)
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.It is the mid 1980s in Lagos and the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are fully in operation. Tolani Ajao is a secretary working at Federal Community Bank. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani’s roommate and colleague, Rose, to persuade her to consider drug trafficking as an alternative means of making a living.
It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule, though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven year old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her Mother who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two Nigerian girls, o..
A new novel from Wole Soyinka prize-winning author of Everything Good Will Come.Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is imminent. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, meets Frances Cooke, wh..
