Danda (Heinemann African Writers Series)

 Heinemann African Writers Series,, 1970, softcover, 205 pages, condition:very good.

A Nigerian novel of the village conflict between a father and his impish ne'er-do-well son.

         Writer of short stories and poems, Nkem Nwankwo gained significant attention with his first novel Danda (1964), which was made into a widely performed musical that was entered in the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal. During the Nigerian Civil War Nwankwo worked on Biafra's Arts Council. In 1968, in collaboration with Samuel X. Ifekjika, he wrote Biafra: The Making of a Nation. After the civil war, he returned to Lagos and worked on the national newspaper, The Daily Times . His subsequent works included the satire My Mercedes Is Bigger than Yours.