West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English (Nigerian Pidgin)
Fiction
Mene, a naive village boy, enlists in the Nigerian Civil War to impress a girl, narrating his experience in an invented rotten English, pidgin mixed with formal registers, producing one of literature's most devastating anti-war novels.
Literary Significance
Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government in 1995; this novel is his enduring literary legacy
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editorial-summarynot primary textMene, a naive village boy, enlists in the Nigerian Civil War to impress a girl, narrating his experience in an invented rotten English, pidgin mixed with formal registers, producing one of literature's most devastating anti-war novels. Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government in 1995; this novel is his enduring literary legacy
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