About the book

This collection of 22 short stories is a quick and fast-paced taste of what Nwilo is capable of ? stories about love, death, being poor and even being too rich to know what you should be doing with your money, all laced with a touch of Nigerian authenticity, just how most people like it.

To 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 a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband’s persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. Bolanle is too educated for the ‘white garment conmen’ Baba Segi would usually go to for fertility advice, so he takes her to hospital to discover the cause of her barrenness.