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Name: Diaries of a Dead African
Author: Chuma Nwokolo

📘 Diaries of a Dead African by Chuma Nwokolo

Diaries of a Dead African explores its life-threatening themes with native humour. Meme Jumai and his two sons - Abel (failed writer) and Calamatus (aspiring conman) - document the final days of their desperate struggle to retain the vanishing shreds of their dignity. At last, Abel's fondest dreams were coming true. Yet, his father had died at 50 and his brother at 25. How to outlive them both - without fleeing the very opportunities he had craved all his life/

First publish date: 2003

Authors: Chuma Nwokolo

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