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020			_a978-978-976-461-7
100			_aEhirim, Nnamdi
245		0	_aPrince of Monkeys
260			_bQuida Books
260			_c2020
300			_a285
520			_aGrowing up in middle–class Lagos, Nigeria during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ihechi forms a band of close friends discovering Lagos together as teenagers with differing opinions of everything from film to football, Fela Kuti to spirituality, sex to politics. They remain close–knit until tragedy unfolds during an anti–government riot. Exiled from Lagos by his concerned mother, Ihechi moves in with his uncle’s family, where he struggles to find himself outside his former circle of friends. Ihechi eventually finds success by leveraging his connection with a notorious prostitution linchpin and political heavyweight, earning favor among the ruling elite. But just as Ihechi is about to make his final ascent into the elite political class, he reunites with his childhood friends and experiences a crisis of conscience that forces him to question his world, his motives, and whom he should become
650			_aComing of Age
650			_aFiction
650			_aPolitical
650			_aUrban & Street Literature
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942			_cBK
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