Cover of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin

Fiction · First published 2010

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

by Lola ShoneyinNigeria

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Baba Segi has three wives and a houseful of children. When his fourth wife, a university graduate, does not become pregnant, the household's carefully kept secrets begin to surface.

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