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Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah studied law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Craz in Austria and Cambridge. Her short fiction is featured in two anthologies, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, both published in 2008 by Weaver Press, Zimbabwe. In 2007, she came second in a SADC-wide short story contest judged by J.M. Coetzee. She lives in Geneva, Switzerland with her son Kush, where she works as a lawyer for the ACWL, an organisation that advises developing counties on international trade law. Her debut novel An Elegy for Easterly will be published by Faber and Faber in April 2009.

Visit Petina's blog here: http://petinagappah.blogspot.com/

The Transistor Radio

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The Transistor Radio

Now settled in Adetola Street, Mr B meets the tricksters, Dandy and Josco. But Mr B is too clever for them and has the last laugh.

ISBN 9781870716062 | 52 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1989 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

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Ken Saro-Wiwa: Nigerian television producer, writer of satirical novels, children's tales, and plays. In 1994 Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned by order of the dictator Sani Abacha. He had strongly defended the rights of the Ogoni people and criticized the government's oil policy with Royal Dutch/Shell. Despite wide international protests, Saro-Wiwa was hanged after a show trial with other eight Ogoni rights activists in Port Harcourt, on November 10, 1995.

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