The Ghost of Sani Abacha

Date: Tuesday 17^th January, 6-8pm

Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS

Speakers

Chuma Nwokolo - Author
Brian Chikwava - Author 'Harare North'

Chair - Ian Birrell - Ian Birrell, columnist, former Deputy Editor for The Independent and speech writer for David Cameron

The Ghost of Sani Abacha is a humorous collection of short stories from a master ironist. These incisively observed tales are all set in a post-autocratic country whose indigenous peoples have varying levels of Post Traumat­ic Stress Disorders from three decades of military occupation. In the title story, a fledgling politi­cian walks a tightrope between a conscience and the inspiration of Dictator Sani Abacha’s lifestyle, determined to avoid his mentor’s colourful death in the laps of imported prostitutes. In Gluttony, a hungry village has one day to eat a beached whale before it rots. Throughout this collection the varied cast of characters are as impishly devious as their circumstances are des­perate.

About the author

Chuma Nwokolo is a writer and lawyer. He was writer-in-residence of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford between 2005 and 2007 and is currently a public speaker and publisher of African Writing Magazine. His books include One More Tale for the Road [2003], Diaries of a Dead African [2003], and the poetry collection Memories of Stone [2006].

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