Vagabonds!
Osunde, Eloghosa2022
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Lagos is a city for all...you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it's just as much their city as it is yours. Eko, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the 'vagabonds' powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine, in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms, the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together, but for what purpose? This novel tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption and oppression, and offers a defiant, joyous and inventive tribute to all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance.
Main title:
Vagabonds! / Eloghosa Osunde.
Author:
Osunde, Eloghosa, author
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2022.©2022
Collation:
303 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
97800084980239780008498023
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
511986
More Information:
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | OSUN | Available |