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Africa Kills Her Sun by Ken Saro-Wiwa

I. Introduction and the Epistolary Frame “Africa Kills Her Sun” is written entirely in the form of a first-person epistolary narrative. The story comprises a final letter written by a condemned man named Bana to his childhood sweetheart, Zole. Bana writes this letter from a dark, maximum-security prison cell on the very night before he …

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary is a powerful, posthumously published memoir that serves as both a record of his 1993 imprisonment and a definitive manifesto for the Ogoni people’s struggle against ecological devastation and political marginalization. The book is framed by an introduction from the British novelist William Boyd, who …