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The
2004 Award
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God's Own Country by Jonah Ageda
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ABOUT
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| Along with countless millions of his contemporaries and fellow countrymen - among them specialist doctors, academics, businessmen, show business starlets, sportsmen and prostitutes - Toby Agboola has come to the drastic conviction that the nation is dead; the politicians and military have done their job well, the undertakers taken over and who would love a dead body so dearly that he wished to be buried with it? So Tobi and Joseph Tile, both young graduates, set out for the United States and their dream, resolved that nothing and no one will thwart them. Until they find themselves caught up in the tidal waves of betrayal, sexual perversion, racism, gangsterism, drug dealing and addiction, that would sweep them off to their destinations faster than they ever dreamt, or dash their hopes and helpless bodies on some rocky island where none would be found to bury them. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Jonah Ageda was born in Nigeria and graduated at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife in Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University). He lives and works in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. God's Own Country is his first work of fiction |
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