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\u2019Pemi Aguda\u2019s short stories evoke the chaos, smells, corruption and supernatural influences in Nigeria\u2019s biggest city<\/em><\/p>\n

The Nigerian-American novelist Teju Cole once described Lagos as a city under the spell of \u201cmagic and malefaction\u201d. It is a view endorsed in Ghostroots, a thrilling and disturbing new collection of short stories by \u2019Pemi Aguda.<\/p>\n

The author, who grew up in Lagos and is a graduate of the writers\u2019 programme at the University of Michigan, details a sprawling metropolis riven by crime, corruption and poverty but also infused with the nebulous presence of supernatural influences.<\/p>\n

In Aguda\u2019s fiction, unexplained powers can be both benign and malign, sometimes at the same time. In some stories, their motivations are good but their impact devastating; in others, they act as messengers of divine retribution. But these ghosts, spirit jesters, unaccountable pestilences and eerie premonitions feel like the inevitable result of an environment in disarray, a place in which power cuts are routine, masculinity is malevolent and Pentecostal ministers hold sway with parables of salvation.<\/p>\n

In the opening story, \u201cManifest\u201d, readers are introduced to the daily reality of life in Nigeria\u2019s most populous city, as an unnamed young woman reads the headlines in the local newspapers: \u201cWoman Cuts Lover\u2019s Penis Off in Rage of Jealousy. Man Beats Daughter to Death for Skipping School. Community in Outskirts of Lagos Hack Thief to Pieces.\u201d<\/em> For the woman, home offers little security. As she herself begins to commit malicious acts \u2014 flooding a bathroom, killing a friend\u2019s puppy \u2014 she fears that she is the reincarnation of her own wicked, long dead grandmother.<\/p>\n

Aguda\u2019s Lagos is a stultifying ecosystem of short-term schemes, low-paid labour and women overwhelmed by child rearing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is a telling start to the collection. In Aguda\u2019s stories, families are more likely to be the problem than the answer. In \u201cBreastmilk\u201d, a woman has conflicting emotions about giving birth to a baby boy. \u201cMy heart broke a little. A son who could grow up to become a man, a man who might hurt other people no matter how well I raise him because a man is a man, even when he is the best man.\u201d The mother\u2019s inability to conjure milk from her breast is evidence of this barrier between the sexes and, in her mind, linked to her husband\u2019s infidelity. That he feels guilt over the betrayal marks him out as the best of men.<\/p>\n

There are various literary touchpoints to Aguda\u2019s narratives, ranging from the English tradition of speculative weird fiction, especially the unsettling spectres of MR James\u2019s shockers, to the contemporary fairy tales of Angela Carter.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Hollow\u201d, echoes of Stephen King resound in a puzzle-box story of a building. Arit, an ambitious trainee architect with a brain \u201csimmering with solutions\u201d, surveys a house that makes no sense: the walls and roofs do not add up to the sum of her blueprints. Walking through its rooms, \u201ca fear clunks up her ribs, puncturing her breaths, a fear that nothing is real and everything is upside down and elementally wrong.\u201d The secret of its design lies in its inception as a haven from an abusive husband.<\/p>\n

Aguda\u2019s Lagos is a stultifying ecosystem of short-term schemes, low-paid labour, women overwhelmed by the practicalities of child rearing and men with \u201csyrupy tongues\u201d. The rhythms of Nigerian Pidgin heard on the streets \u2014 with its singsong blend of English and staccato interjections \u2014 are well captured; as is the pungent gooiness of bodies crammed into its domestic and work spaces. A traumatised mother takes on an \u201canimal smell\u201d while the toe of a destitute teenager is \u201cblack on the inside\u201d.<\/p>\n

The city, notes one weary resident, is \u201cbright and glittering from a distance, nothing but grime and sweat up close\u201d. In several of the stories, the paranormal offers a welcome glimpse of a happier alternative. In one, a ghost market appears at dusk, run by chattering women wrapped in vibrant indigo Ankara dresses, offering \u201coverflowing baskets of tatase peppers and onions, bright orange carrots and deep green okras\u201d on their lantern-lit stalls.<\/p>\n

Aguda stirs her cauldron of social criticism, feminism, structural invention and grotesque gothic twists into a triumph of genre-bending storytelling, a kind of African uncanny all of her own.<\/p>\n

Ghostroots<\/strong> by \u2019Pemi Aguda Virago \u00a316.99, 224 pages<\/p>\n

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Review written by Christian House<\/a>Financial Times<\/a>)<\/time><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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