People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi [in Shelf Awareness]
07 May, by in Adult Readers, African, Fiction, Repost
Although Chinua Achebe's pivotal Things Fall Apart is a staple on most Western students' reading lists as representative of modern African literature, Cyprian Ekwensi predates Achebe by four years as one of Nigeria's first writers publishing in English. Introduced in the U.K. in 1954, Ekwensi's debut...