Somber City

An Evocative Novel of the Promise, the Pain, the Disenchantment of Contemporaty Lagos..

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Somber City by Rotimi Ogunjobi, AM Book and Team Publishing Limited
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Author: Rotimi Ogunjobi ISBN: 9783958496590
Publisher: AM Book and Team Publishing Limited Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Rotimi Ogunjobi
ISBN: 9783958496590
Publisher: AM Book and Team Publishing Limited
Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English
Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disappointment of post-colonial Nigeria. The novel illuminates, through a mix of fact and fiction, a seminal moment in modern history: Nigeria's fervent passage through a period of immense oil wealth in the 1970s to a sudden descent into a cataclysmal debt trap in the early 1980s. This chaotic period, captured within the city of Lagos, is experienced alongside the protagonist Femi Falashe, a young engineer seeking to get his life back in track after a sudden job loss, as well as five other unforgettable characters:
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Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disappointment of post-colonial Nigeria. The novel illuminates, through a mix of fact and fiction, a seminal moment in modern history: Nigeria's fervent passage through a period of immense oil wealth in the 1970s to a sudden descent into a cataclysmal debt trap in the early 1980s. This chaotic period, captured within the city of Lagos, is experienced alongside the protagonist Femi Falashe, a young engineer seeking to get his life back in track after a sudden job loss, as well as five other unforgettable characters:

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