The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptat­­­ion by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.



“Men are like yam, you cut them how you like.”

Baba Segi has three wives, seven children, and a mansion filled with riches. But now he has his eyes on Bolanle, a young university graduate wise to life's misfortunes. When Bolanle responds to Baba Segi's advances, she unwittingly uncovers a secret which threatens to rock his patriarchal household to the core.

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptat­­­ion by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.



“Men are like yam, you cut them how you like.”

Baba Segi has three wives, seven children, and a mansion filled with riches. But now he has his eyes on Bolanle, a young university graduate wise to life's misfortunes. When Bolanle responds to Baba Segi's advances, she unwittingly uncovers a secret which threatens to rock his patriarchal household to the core.

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

by Rotimi Babatunde
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

by Rotimi Babatunde

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptat­­­ion by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.



“Men are like yam, you cut them how you like.”

Baba Segi has three wives, seven children, and a mansion filled with riches. But now he has his eyes on Bolanle, a young university graduate wise to life's misfortunes. When Bolanle responds to Baba Segi's advances, she unwittingly uncovers a secret which threatens to rock his patriarchal household to the core.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786825513
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/18/2018
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerian writer and playwright. In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region. In 2012, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Bombay Republic.
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