Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
by:
Noo Saro-Wiwa (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847083319 (1847083315)
Publish date: April 1st 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Womens,
African Literature
I thoroughly enjoyed this, somewhat to my surprise, since I am often impatient with travelogue segments in fiction. But then, a nonfiction travel book succeeds if it informs and entertains the reader with information about a place, while fictional travels all too often serve as cover for lack of plo...
blurb - Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by t...
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