Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

“Alternately funny, shocking, and sad” this novel about female rivalry and polygamy is “a complex depiction of family and culture in modern-day Nigeria.” —Sacramento Book Review

When Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife’s childlessness.

For Baba Segi, his collection of wives and gaggle of children are a symbo...