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Vagabonds!
- Narrated by: Arit Okpo, Atta Otigba, Eloghosa Osunde, Ifeyinwa Unachukwu, Obongjayar, Sheila Chukwulozie
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Vagabonds! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.
Lagos is a city for all...you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it’s just as much their city as it is yours.
Èkó, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the ‘vagabonds’ powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose.
With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician, a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work, a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine—in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms—the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together, but for what purpose?
In her debut novel, Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption and oppression, and offers a defiant, joyous and inventive tribute to all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance.
Critic Reviews
"A dazzling, hypnotic portrait of lives lived on the margins." (T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls)
"Spectacular." (Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater)
"This novel astounded me." (Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat)
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- 30-07-2023
Just brilliant
One of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Multiple stories weave and stack to build a gorgeous picture of queerness in Nigeria. Gods, magic and demons in such an understated, captivating and very human way. The narrators are absolutely stunning. This book reads like poetry and gave me chills pretty much every time I listened to it.
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