The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives may refer to: * The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (novel), a 2010 novel by Lola Shoneyin * The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (play), a 2018 stage play by Rotimi Babatunde based on the novel {{DEFAULTSORT:Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, The ...
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The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives (novel)
''The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives'' is the title of the 2010 debut novel by the Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin. The novel was longlisted for the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction in 2011. It won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2011 and the ANA Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize in the same year. It was short listed for the NLNG Nigeria prize for literature in 2012 and was listed in the top ten novels about Nigeria by The Observer newspaper in 2014. It has been translated into several languages including Arabic and has been adapted for the stage and screen. The novel follows the Ibadan, Alao family of Baba Segi, his four wives and seven children, during the period that his fourth wife, a university graduate, is within the household. In South Africa and Nigeria, polygamy is a common practice and the novel, written by an author familiar with this system of multiple wives, deals with the cultural pressures on the infertile and impotent within a polygamous society, a ...
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