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Download or read book BARON OF BROAD STREET written by EL NUKOYA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disun Falodun and his bosom friend--Ige -- are young boys growing up within the squeeze and squalor of Makoko. As they sit on the banks of the Lagos Lagoon, they contemplate life on the other side of town--the exclusive district of the Metropolis covering Ikoyi, Victoria Island, and, Broad Street--that mysterious area, so distant, yet so close. Disun is the optimistic of the duo, resolute in his faith in a fair chance at success in Lagos, his ordinary background notwithstanding. Ige, on the other hand -- held by a vibrant, radical mind-- reasoning that the expectation of a fair chance was utopian, entrenches himself in the firm belief that the only reliable choices open to them were illicit. Both set out on a life journey, after making a silent bet as to which of their opposed doctrines is superior."--Author's website.
Download or read book Baron of Broad Street Part I written by El Nukoya and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baron of Broad Street follows the story of two young men from the notorious Lagos ghetto, Makoko, as they attempt to realize grand aspirations. Ambition, conscience, friendship and necessity are a flammable mixture for the young men on the make, where the traditional and the modern, the family and the city, loyalty and self-interest bubble, simmer and come to a head. The seemingly impossible challenges to the honour and integrity of the young protagonists, and their desperate but indefatigable responses, are a blunt depiction of the contradictions of one of Africa's largest and most dynamic countries. An entertaining window on life in contemporary Lagos as well as an exploration of universal ethical dilemmas, this story is both a modern African parable and a fascinating primer on contemporary Nigeria. El Nukoya is driven to educate and to moralize but also, perhaps above all, to entertain. With this, his second novel, he succeeds in doing all three! - PROF. ANDERSON BROWN, RENOWN LITERARY COMMENTATOR
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