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Mayowa and the Masquerades

Francis Blake (Illustrator), Lola Shoneyin

Author	Francis Blake (Illustrator), Lola Shoneyin
Publisher	Cassava Republic Press

Mayowa and the Masquerades

Name: Mayowa and the Masquerades
SKU: BK890
Price: 20.00 GHS
Availability: InStock

Francis Blake (Illustrator), Lola Shoneyin

Mayowa is unhappy because he has been told he will be visiting his grandmother in Ilisan. When he gets there, grandma pairs him up with the ever-hungry, fun- loving Denuyi. Together, they explore the town and all its wonders. By the time he returns to Lαgos, Mαyowa learns that there is more to life than computer games…

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SKU: BK890 Categories: Africa, Author Origin, Children & Teens, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Illustrated books, Literature & Fiction, Nigeria Tag: Lola Shoneyin

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Francis Blake (Illustrator)

Lola Shoneyin

Lola Shoneyin's work includes three books of poems: So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg (1997), Song of a Riverbird (2002) For the Love of Flight (2010) and two children's books: Mayowa and the Masquerades (2010) and Iyaji, the Housegirl (2014)

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 and went on to win the PEN Oakland 2011 Josephine Miles Literary Award and the 2011 ANA/Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize. Her children's book, Mayowa and the Masquerades won the 2011 Atiku Abubakar Prize for Children's literature.

Shoneyin is the director of Ake Arts & Book Festival which takes place every November in Abeokuta, Nigeria. She lives in Nigeria.