The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives African Fiction As Grand Vizier

As Grand Vizier

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The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives African Fiction As Grand VizierTo the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore considered a great prize in Nigeria, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. She only wants to escape to a quiet life, but the others disapprove of the newest, youngest, cleverest