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People of the City - Wikipedia People of the City is the debut novel of Cyprian Ekwensi first published in 1954 by Andrew Dakers Ltd The novel was a predecessor to a number of other city novels in the Nigerian tradition
People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi | Goodreads Say what you want, but Ekwensi crafts a beautiful tale in People of The City about change I find Sango transformed at the end of the book, willing to start a new life
People of the City Critical Essays - eNotes. com Critically, the style of People of the City provides ample fodder for critique The prose is often clogged with clichés, and the dialogue can come across as stilted, peppered with logical
People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi | EBSCO Clearly, this novel is not important for its style; rather, its significance lies in Ekwensi being the first African writer to investigate closely, in the form of the novel, the reality of big-city life in Nigeria and to question the direction his society seemed to be taking
Book Review | People Of The City - The Arts-Muse Fair It is easy to imagine what Cyprian saw in 1954 when People of the City was published by Heinemann under its African Writers Series, as this is a familiar story in urban and sub-urban parts of the country The illusion of fast money, the exchange of vices, the poverty and under employment
Reviewed: People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi - RTÉ First published in 1954, Ekwensi's debut novel, People of the City is a curiously spare work, but not one without high drama and careful illumination of the lives of ordinary people
People of the City - Cyprian Ekwensi - Google Books Despite the added reputation, Ekwensi achieved with his later novels, People of the City, remains a work of great significance in the development of contemporary African writing
Representations of the City in the Early and Recent Nigerian Novel . . . The novels are People of the City and Alpha Song The study employs a postmodernist theory which privileges representation over reality Cyprian Ekwensi and Maik Nwosu are purposively selected for the essay The approach, eventually, will be to undertake a detailed content analysis of the two works
People of the City - New York Review Books People of the City tells the story of a young crime reporter who doubles as a bandleader in a large west African city As one British critic wrote, the novel said more about west Africa than 50 government reports One of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century