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Nigeria: the essential lives

4 figures from Nigeria, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Told the African story from the inside, and ended the colonial monopoly on narrative.

First African Nobel laureate in Literature; playwright and political prisoner.

The Famished Road brought African magical realism to the Booker.

Half of a Yellow Sun and a feminism that reached a global generation.