Chapter 12. A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Nigerian Connections 1
5. Chapter 1. Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper 28
6. Chapter 2. Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana’s Story 38
7. Chapter 3. Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views 47
8. Chapter 4. Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha 57
9. Chapter 5. The City, According to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo 66
10. Chapter 6. Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka 76
11. Chapter 7. Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns 90
12. Chapter 8. Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World 98
13. Chapter 9. Death in Lagos 105
14. Chapter 10. Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press 113
15. Chapter 11. Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun 119
16. Chapter 12. A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo 129
17. Chapter 13. Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam 136
18. Chapter 14. Railtown Writers 144
19. Chapter 15. Nigeria at War 149
20. Chapter 16. America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes 163
21. Chapter 17. Transatlantic Shuttle 177
22. Chapter 18. Sojourners from Black Britain 193
23. Chapter 19. Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism 208
24. Index 219