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Waiting for An Angel

Helon Habila

  • 228 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 9 editions
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1 About this book

Waiting for an Angel marks the debut of one of Africa's most promising new writers. Lomba is a young journalist living under military regime in Lagos, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and thenovel he is writing. But his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't love, and his neighbours are planning a demo which is bound to incite riot and arrests.

Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. He must write the truth about this reign of terror . . .Waiting for an Angel captures the despair, the frenzy and the stubborn hope of a generation daring to speak out against one of the world's most oppressive regimes.

  • Political prisoners
  • Politics and government
  • Political
  • Nigeria
  • Journalists

2 About Helon Habila

Born 1967

Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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