Lagos Life and Sexual Distraction

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>New From EnvelopeBooks</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor Segun's answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin the corrupt politician's son? Will Musa's friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram's attack on their village?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>The life of the underprivileged is always desperate and provisional whether in urban Lagos or in the countryside in northern Nigeria. In this energetic collection of twelve short stories Tunde Ososanya exposes the challenges of daily life and the efforts of ordinary people to aspire in the face of overwhelming odds.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>There are distractions. Humour is one observed in the audacity of conmen who ride the yellow danfo buses. Magic is another in the spirit world that Mr Benson asks his Literature-in-English students to write about. But the most immediate is always sex the ultimate escape.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Twelve stories about invisible heroes each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.</span></p>