A Gecko's Farewell
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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.A Gecko's Farewell is a novel about three Africans from different parts of the continent who meet in the spirit (online) and plan to found a school of stories.
Etiaba, a village schoolteacher, loses his job and moves to the capital city and its world of prayer contractors and hope merchants. Mzilikazi's is the story of the homeless spectre, the boy soldier, the fugitive, the exile - A black South African dislocated under the Apartheid regime. Nadia is a radical student of photography at the University of Cairo. She becomes a photo journalist and takes the picture of an Islamic Terrorist, an act that endangers her.
These three characters eventually escape from Africa but Africa is in a sense inescapable.
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