Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta at Meridian Little Theatre in 2021, 13 April 2021
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Sefi Atta was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. A former accountant, she is the author of Everything Good Will Come, News From Home and Swallow. Her short stories have appeared in journals like PEN International and World Literature Today, and have won prizes from Zoetrope and Red Hen Press. Also a playwright, her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and her stage plays have been produced internationally. In 2006 Everything Good Will Come was awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and in 2009 News From Home received the Noma Award For Publishing in Africa.
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Sefi Atta
At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity. When her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father’s five-year memorial service, she finds herself turning her scrutiny inward. In Nigeria, Deola encounters changes in her family and in the urban landscape of her home, and new acquaintances who offer unexpected possibilities. Deola’s journey is as much about evading others’ expectations to get to the heart of her frustration as it is about exposing the differences between foreign images of Africa and the realities of contemporary Nigerian life.
2012 | ISBN 9781876756994 | Paperback | 205 x 135 mm | 222 pp