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Publication details [#49822]
Kehinde, Ayo. 2007. Narrating the African city from the diaspora: Lagos as a trope in Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe's short stories. African Identities 5 (2) : 231–246. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This article illustrates how two migrant Nigerian writers, Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe appropriate the city of Lagos in their short stories. A tacit critique emerges of urban regulatory mechanisms and of all forms of neocolonial decadence in postcolonial, modern African states.