Jagua Nana
Cyprian Ekwensi
Lagos nightlife through the eyes of an aging good-time woman.
Ekwensi followed Jagua Nana, a glamorous middle-aged Lagos woman living by her charm, into the bars and politics of the modern city. Against the village-centered fiction of his peers, he pioneered the urban Nigerian novel -- fast, popular, and frank about sex and money -- and created one of African literature's first self-possessed female protagonists.
Its legacy. It established the market for popular city fiction across anglophone Africa.
- Author
- Cyprian Ekwensi
- First published
- 1961
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- The West African Novel
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