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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

von Lola Shoneyin, Titilola Alexandrah Shoneyin

Fiction Cultural

ISBN

9781846687495

Verlag

Profile Books(GB)

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Polygamy Nigerian culture Family dynamics Women's fiction Domestic fiction African literature Marriage Motherhood Feminism Cultural traditions Contemporary fiction Women's empowerment Interpersonal relationships Patriarchy Social issues Literary fiction Multivocal narrative Female perspective Nigerian society Gender roles

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To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. Bolanle is too educated for the 'white garment conmen' Baba Segi would usually go to for fertility advice, so he takes her to hospital to discover the cause of her barrenness. Weaving the voices of Baba Segi and his four competing wives into a portrait of a clamorous household of twelve, Lola Shoneyin evokes an extraordinary Nigerian family in splashes of vibrant colour.