Cyprian Ekwensi
Biography
(Cyprian
Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi), Jagua Nana, People of the City, Beautiful Feathers
Nigerian novelist and short-story
writer, born in Minna, Northern Nigeria, educated at the Universities of Ibadan
and Ghana, and at the Chelsea School of Pharmacy, University of London. He has
also been a lecturer and broadcaster, and has served with the Federal Ministry
of Information, Lagos, and the Bureau of External Publicity in Biafra during
the Nigerian Civil War. Ekwensi is generally recognized as an entertaining
chronicler of the big city life in West Africa, and his novels are
characterized by a vigorous, realistic style. His most famous novel, Jagua
Nana (1961), follows the ‘ageing African beauty’ of the title, which refers
both to Zola's original ‘demimondaine’ and the pidgin word for ‘Jaguar’ cars,
in her quest for love and money in ‘high life’ Lagos. People of the City
(1954), Beautiful Feathers (1963), and Lokotown and Other Stories
(1966) are also all set in Lagos, and peopled with vivid characters in their
hectic struggle to survive, or to shine. Burning Grass (1962), written
as a children's story, deals with the Fulani cattlemen of Northern Nigeria, and
is generally considered to be one of Ekwensi's most successful, though least
characteristic, novels.
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