Entertainment
Come November 25 and 26, 2016, Cesaria Evora will resurrect in Lagos, first at the Muri Okunola Park where Lito Coolio, a contemporary street band steeped in the best tradition of Morna will take the stage at the 7th edition of the Lagos Jazz Series, the annual festival of jazz and alternative music.
I was fascinated because I grew up in the North, first Kano and then Jos, but I was discovering something new about the North in Abubakar’s book. There was lust and passion but above all, a clear-eyed exposition of what it means to be human and a woman and middle-aged in Northern Nigeria riven not just by religion but by religious crises.
