Kicking Tongues by Karen King-Aribisala

Kicking Tongues by Karen King-AribisalaKaren King Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja. Carefully selected by their hostess an enigmatic figure who calls herself, The Black Lady The the passengers on this journey range from a wealthy tribal chief to a humble petrol pump attendant, from a rain maker to a reserved woman

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searching for the end of his story

The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear

His warband scattered

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but struggle to articulate exactly why

He is no longer a hedgehog but a hodgeheg

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