Prince of monkeys : a novel /

Growing up in middle-class Lagos, Nigeria during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ihechi forms a band of close friends discovering Lagos together as teenagers with differing opinions of everything from film to football, Fela Kuti to spirituality, sex to politics. They remain close-knit until tragedy...

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Main Author: Ehirim, Nnamdi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2019.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
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