BOOK REVIEW: THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES
Baba Segi is a middle-aged man who acquires wives like tubers of yam, at least that was how he got his second wife Iya Tope. Bolanle is a graduate who to the dismay of her mother marries Baba Segi, a polygamist. As with many polygamous settings, she’s faced with fierce rivalry and stiff hatred. Despite the attempt of two of the wives to get her out of the house so they could reclaim their positions in Baba Segi’s lives, she stays despite Iya Segi’s saying that ‘… these educated types have thin skins; they are like pigeons. If we poke her with a stick, she will fly away and leave our home in peace.’
