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| The Secret lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin. |
The book The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives is a tapestry of cultural representations that happen in deeply rooted African homes.
Lola Shoneyin, the author, keeps it African and funny from the word go.
Baba Segi is the typical African man who boasts of having a nursery of children, many wives who he clearly doesn't know how to please besides being blessed immensely by a third leg.
He married a fourth wife who is the only university graduate among all the rest. This pretty lass, faces shame like she has never seen before.Reason being she cant bear a child yet all the other three wives are blessed with children.
Misery loves company, is all we can say about the other three women.
Later on it turns out they all had a secret that they were determined to keep at the expense of the graduate woman's life.Fate has it that one of their children dies instead. what a twist. its sad.I shed a tear at this point.
When Baba Segi finds out he cant bear children and all he has been doing is keeping other men's children. He has no energy left!
Poor fellow!
The book is rich in culture, funny, immaculately written, though some incidences are a bit predictable, the story is not to blame, its raw and real.
What do you think about the book? This are just my views.
What are you currently reading, you can recommend and we can talk about it next time.
Cheers.
S.R
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