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One Man, One Wife

One Man, One Wife

Aluko, T. M.

Paperback

Series: New Africa Library

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ISBN10: 1957810718
ISBN13: 9781957810713
Publisher: Iska Press
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A witty Nigerian classic about marriage, mission Christianity, indigenous belief and social change, restored in Iska Press's New Africa Library.

In the Western Nigerian village of Isolo, the missionary ideal of one man, one wife is proving harder to sustain than the church's converts expected. As villagers grow disillusioned with mission Christianity, suspicion falls on Teacher Royasin, the village catechist, whose alleged affair with another man's young wife becomes a flashpoint for intrigue, rivalry, faith and a return toward older religious practices. First published in 1959 and substantially revised for its 1967 African Writers Series edition, One Man, One Wife is a witty, sharply observed portrait of a community negotiating marriage, belief, authority and social change. T. M. Aluko's satire refuses easy divisions between tradition and modernity, revealing instead the ambitions, contradictions and accommodations through which communal life changes. This New Africa Library edition returns the novel to global readers.

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