West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Kingsley, a top engineering graduate who can't find work, is pulled into his flamboyant uncle's 419 advance-fee fraud empire. A darkly comic examination of corruption, ambition, and the pressures on African families.
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize Africa Region; the most comprehensive fictional treatment of Nigerian email fraud
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editorial-summarynot primary textKingsley, a top engineering graduate who can't find work, is pulled into his flamboyant uncle's 419 advance-fee fraud empire. A darkly comic examination of corruption, ambition, and the pressures on African families. Commonwealth Writers' Prize Africa Region; the most comprehensive fictional treatment of Nigerian email fraud
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