Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individu
| TITLE | : | Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.78 (708 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1619020076 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 272 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2012-08-21 |
| GENRE | : |
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Recently, she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for.Saro-Wiwa travels from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park. She explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood.She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption an
EDITORIAL :
From Booklist *Starred Review* The daughter of slain Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa revisits her homeland as an adult in this absorbing tour of that complex African country. As a child, Saro-Wiwa resented being pulled from her life in London to be shuttled off to Nigeria with her family. Now she devotes several months to getting to know the country as an adult. She begins her journey in Lagos, staying with a family friend and braving perilous public transportation to visit the heart of the Nigerian oil industry, a local museum, and a beach, where she’s courted by a charming con man. She finds the new capital of Abuja, where her older brother now lives, cleaner and less congested than Lagos, but it lacks the former capital’s lively character. Saro-Wiwa had high hopes for Transwonderland, an amusement park built in Ibadan, but it’s run-down and essentially deserted. As s
REVIEW :
I bought this book for my Kindle and have read it three times now. The pages are bright and some are not too labor intensive, none of the pages are going to take very long to do. Continuation.
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Everything was repeated Over and Overagain!!!
I did Learn a LessonAlways read the reviews before Buying!!!!!!!!!!!. In a world so like our own their is darkness, real truly awful and terrible things that made me wretch. Spectacular success may go
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