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Popular account, by the wife of a British official, of their lives in Agulu and of their relationship with the people, including their domestic servants.

Nigeria in literature

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'The speed of progress in West Africa has taken much of the world by surprise, and Isobel Ryan has been able to study 'the new, energetic, venturous, sensitive African spirit' on the spot. Not politics, but personal, social, commercial and domestic contacts are her theme. With the same exact eye, good sense and good humour that gave us Black Man's Town, she plunges us into the 'continuous ferment of development' in present-day Nigeria, and particularly Lagos' everyday happenings - and the great occasion of the Queen's visit - enable her to show, with affectionate detail, a variety of those 'plain people' whose lives are the foundations upon which a new Africa is being built.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb).

Nigeria --- Travelers' writings [English ] --- Public life --- Social life and customs