In store now! Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
As a part of our ongoing celebration of Black History, this week we’re focusing on some of the biggest names in modern African fiction! Today, we’re taking a look at Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka’s first novel in almost 50 years, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. Part fantasy, part whodunnit, part paranoid conspiracy, part searing political thriller, Soyinka’s novel is is a vivid and wild romp through a political landscape riddled with corruption and opportunism and a spiritual landscape riddled with fraudulence and, even more disquietingly, state-sanctioned murder. With a fascinating insider perspective on Post-Colonialism and Imperialism, whilst retaining a clear creative and moral conscience, this is Soyinka’s revenge against the insanities of the nation’s ruling class. A shocking chronicle of a 21st Century African nation. Essential.
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
Hardback £20
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka’s hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists, who also happens to be a global literary giant.
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