Passage to Africa
D.A.N. Jones, 7 July 1983
Nigerian Kaleidoscope
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,0 905838 59 9 Show More
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,
Stepping-Stones
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,0 7206 0600 4 Show More
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,
Female and Male in West Africa
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,0 04 301158 6 Show More
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,
Memories of Our Recent Boom
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,0 582 78572 3 Show More
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,
“... of their nation, makes us uneasy. How much of this mess (thinks the British reader) was our fault? Kole Omotoso’s new novel, Memories of Our Recent Boom, provokes exactly that blend of literary pleasure and political dismay. (The sarcastic title alludes perhaps to Desnoes’s satire on Castro’s Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment.) ... ”
