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Adewale Maja-Pearce

Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.

Selected bibliography

  • Who’s Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship (1991)
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? (1990)
  • In My Father’s Country: A Nigerian Journey (1987)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Our Credulous Grammarian · 2 August 2007

subscriber-only content Diary: Adewale Maja-Pearce in Northern Nigeria · 12 December 2002

subscriber-only content Feed the Charm · 25 July 2002

  • In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy by Ken Wiwa
  • This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier
  • The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War by Stephen Ellis

subscriber-only content Onitsha Home Movies · 10 May 2001

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Army Arrangement · 1 April 1999

 not available in archive Diary · 19 February 1998