The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives

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Lola Shoneyin’s light and ironic touch expose not only the rotten innards of Baba Segi’s polygamous household in this cleverly plotted story; it also shows how women not educated or semi-literate, women in contemporary Nigeria can be as restricted, controlled and damaged by men – be they fathers, husbands, uncles, rapists – as they’ve never been.

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For a polygamist like Baba Segi, his collection of wives and a gaggle of children are the symbols of prosperity, success and validation of his manhood. Everything runs reasonably smoothly in the patriarchal home until wife number four intrudes on this family romance.

Bolanle, a graduate amongst the semi-literate wives, is hated from the start. Baba Segi’s glee at bagging a graduate doesn’t help matters. Worse, Bolanle’s arrival threatens to do more than simply ruffle feathers. She’s unwittingly set to expose a secret that her co-wives intend to protect, at all costs.

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