West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Dantala, a street boy in northern Nigeria, is swept up in electoral violence, finds refuge in a mosque, and watches as the gentle Islam he learns there is overtaken by radicalism. A novel of Nigeria's crisis of faith.
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One of the most important novels about the rise of religious extremism in northern Nigeria
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editorial-summarynot primary textDantala, a street boy in northern Nigeria, is swept up in electoral violence, finds refuge in a mosque, and watches as the gentle Islam he learns there is overtaken by radicalism. A novel of Nigeria's crisis of faith. One of the most important novels about the rise of religious extremism in northern Nigeria
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