Kicking Tongues

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja.

Carefully selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls herself, ''The Black Lady The'' – the passengers on this journey range from a wealthy tribal chief to a humb...