''On Black Sisters Street'' is a 2011 translated novel by

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n author Chika Unigwe. It is her second novel, which was originally published as ''Fata Morgana'', in Dutch in 2008 and subsequently released in English as ''On Black Sisters' Street''. ''On Black Sisters' Street'' is about African prostitutes living and working in Belgium. ''On Black Sisters' Street'' won the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature; valued at $100,000 it is Africa's largest literary prize.

Plot summary

The story is set on ''Zwartezusterstraat'' which is the "Black Sisters' Street" in Belgium. Here four migrant sex-workers try to make enough money to pay back the Nigerian pimp named Dele for the fee he claims for transporting them from Nigeria to Belgium.

References

Postcolonial novels 2008 Nigerian novels Novels set in Belgium Random House books Parrésia Publishers books {{Nigeria-novel-stub