'The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives' was my first African writers book I picked up this year. Being another Nigerian author, her debut novel, 'the secret lives of Baba Segi's wives' is set in a Nigerian village and explores the family dynamics of a polygamous marriage. Baba Segi is a traditional man who has four wives, three of whom are illiterate. His educated fourth and youngest wife whom he seems to warm to the most is the obvious envy of the other three older wives. On the downside, she turns out to be the one who is unable to take seed or rather the one who manages to expose Baba Segi's lack of functioning sperms. So who fathered the 7 children from his other three wives...... Read to find out. An interesting story of culture, scandals, secrets and an encounter of modern and traditional beliefs with humor.
'The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives' was my first African writers book I picked up this year. Being another Nigerian author, her debut novel, 'the secret lives of Baba Segi's wives' is set in a Nigerian village and explores the family dynamics of a polygamous marriage. Baba Segi is a traditional man who has four wives, three of whom are illiterate. His educated fourth and youngest wife whom he seems to warm to the most is the obvious envy of the other three older wives. On the downside, she turns out to be the one who is unable to take seed or rather the one who manages to expose Baba Segi's lack of functioning sperms. So who fathered the 7 children from his other three wives...... Read to find out. An interesting story of culture, scandals, secrets and an encounter of modern and traditional beliefs with humor.
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