The Weaverbird Collection: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008

by Sarah Ladipo Manyika

This collection suggests that the new Nigerian writing is as engaged with the political as it with the personal, and is certainly not obsessed with "debauchery". Ayobami's and Koya-Oyagbola's stories are as much about individual experiences of humiliation, pride, love and redemption as they are about "large political themes" like racism and the commodification of sex in a society of poor and desperate people.
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192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2016

About the author

Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.