Jagua Nana
Jagua Nana; Set in Lagos, this is partly a story of 1950 Nigeria, before independence. A story of the nightlife in those years. The jazz and highlife in the nightclub, Tropicana. Of the sisterhood that may be between women of the night (as epitomized in the Jagua-Rosa relationship). Also of the brazen corruption and disregard for human dignity that envelopes the former Nigerian capital. Of politics and how it is a given that politics necessarily leads to needless deaths.
Jagua Nana is a novel that shows the sometimes tragic consequences of money being one’s moral compass. A novel of people wasting years of their life, & sometimes losing their lives, chasing faulty dreams, because they never slowed down to learn who they really were. A novel that showcases the magnetic attraction of toxicity; and how the value of home should never be lost on its residents.
AUTHOR: Cyprian Ekwensi
