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From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a active young words from Nigeria, Given birth to on a Wednesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first book in regards to a young boy struggling to find his place in a contemporary society that is fracturing along religious and politics lines. In significantly northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleeping under a kuka tree. Through the election the children are paid by the tiny Party to cause trouble. When their try to burn up down the opposition's local headquarters ends in devastation, Dantala must run for his life, going out of his closest friend behind. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and information. With his quick aptitude and moderate aspect, Dantala becomes a favorite apprentice to the mosque's sheikh. In a short time he is confronted with a terrible discord of loyalties, as one of the sheikh's closest advisors starts to raise his own radical activity. When bloodshed erupts in metropolis around him, Dantala must make a decision what kind of Muslim - and what kind of man - he wants to be. Informed in Dantala's naive, looking voice, this astonishing debut explores the ways that young men are seduced by religious fundamentalism and violence.
