The Secret Life of Baba Segi's Wives (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Baba Segi: Main character. He has four wives.
• Iya Femi: a wife of Baba Segi.
• Lara: Bolanle's sister
• Grandma
• Segun
• Dr. Dibia
• Bolanle: Baba Segi's fourth wife. She is educated, unlike the other wives.
• Dr. Usman
• Iya Segi: Baba Segi's first wife
• Iya Tope: another of Baba Segi's wives
• Mrs. Alao: All of Baba Segi's wives are actually each Mrs. Alao
• Tunde
• Kole
• Latundun
• Faruku

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• “Men are nothing. They are fools. The penis between their legs is all they are useful for. And even then, if not that women needed their seed for children, it would be better to sit on a finger of green plantain. Listen to my words. Only a foolish woman leans heavily on a man's promises.”

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• When the time comes for you to marry, take one wife and one wife alone. And when she causes you pain, as all women do, remember it is better that your pain comes from one source alone. Listen to your wife’s words, listen to the words she doesn’t speak so that you will be prepared. A man must always be prepared.”

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• I will remember them as inmates, because what really separates us is that I have rejoined my life’s path; they are going nowhere.

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• Segi and Akin, a daughter before a son, from his first wife; Tope, Afolake and Motun, three girls born eleven months apart, from the second; and Femi and Kole, sons smugly birthed by Iya Femi, his third wife.

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• So deep-seated is their disdain for my university degree that they smear my books with palm oil and hide them under the kitchen cupboards. I have often found missing pages from my novels in the dustbin, the words scribbled over with charcoal.

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• You alone have been their father, for it takes more than shedding seed to be a father.”

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• words. Only a foolish woman leans heavily on a man’s promises.”

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• If there was ever a moment when the memory of being raped became fresh in my mind, that was it.

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• A real woman must always do the things she wants to do, and in her own time too. You must never allow yourself to be rushed into doing things you’re not ready for.”

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• I was compensation for the failed crops. I was just like the tubers of cassava in the basket.

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• “Doctor, when you buy guavas in the marketplace, you cannot open every single one to check for rottenness. And where you find rottenness, you do not always throw away the guava. You bite around the rot and hope that it will quench your craving.”

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• Ibadan
• Ayikara
• Sango Road
• Sango

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lola Shoneyin (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Orange Prize for Fiction (Finalist, 2011, Longlist)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary