Overview
Region
West Africa
Nigeria
Era
Contemporary
Language
English (Nigerian Pidgin)
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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