SOZABOY, a novel in rotten English, with a foreword by Noo Saro-Wiwa and introduction by William Boyd

257pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1985) 2024

Novel set during the Nigerian Civil War. Written in Nigerian Pidgin English.

"Sozaboy is not simply a great African novel, it is also a great anti-war novel, among the very best the twentieth century has produced." William Boyd, from his introduction

Novelist, television producer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was born in Bori, Nigeria, in 1941. His work includes Basi & Company, a TV series; On a Darkling Plain, an account of the Nigerian Civil War; A Month and a Day: A detention diary; A Forest of Flowers, short stories, and the novel Lemona's Tale. From 1991, he devoted himself full-time to political and ecological causes and was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. He was unlawfully detained under the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha and executed in 1995.