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Lola Shoneyin : The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Weaving the voices of Baba Segi and his four competing wives into a portrait of a clamorous household of twelve, Lola Shoneyin evokes an extraordinary Nigerian family in splashes of vibrant colour.
ISBN: 9781846687495
Author: Lola Shoneyin
Page: 245
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2011
Format: Book
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
Language: English

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To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. Bolanle is too educated for the 'white garment conmen' Baba Segi would usually go to for fertility advice, so he takes her to hospital to discover the cause of her barrenness.

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