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Lagos, its monstrous traffic jams, its exhausting warmth, its all -out corruption, its juicy business of evangelist churches and its taste for rowdy luxury … In the heart of the capital of Nigeriastands the divine Amaka, daughter of diplomat and especially lawyer, ardent defender of prostitutes in the country. The young woman is a fighter who is not cold in the eyes. We discovered it in Lagos Lady (Metilié) Formidable first Roman by Leye Adenle, published in 2016. She quickly became a recurring heroine of the novelist with Fire (Metalié) in 2020 and today in Everything will be fine. Amaka left the country to settle in London but does not hesitate to go home to help a friend, Funke, struggling with a pastor and his henchmen. In the beautiful districts, a notable and his wife are executed by trigger. Another dies from a heart attack on the evening of his ulterical birthday. But first, everyone is looking for the millions of dollars missing from the mafia radars.
Leyle Adenle, born in 1975, is a remarkable observer country. He writes his black novels as you have to drive his car in the frantic and burning streets of Lagos. His new intrigue is above all an opportunity to enter in the world of preachersfirst category thugs with crucifixes encrusted with diamonds on their ironed shirt to better seduce their flock. There, being a pastor and billionaire is a pleonasm. The religious move in private jet and sleep in palaces. Opposite, poverty is endemic and Women, first victimshave only their bodies to sell.
The novelist points to injustices, in turn funny and denunciator. His tongue is nourished by frenzy and delirium, worthy of sellers of professional vacuum cleaners or room drivers: « Ladies and Gentlemen, Said the voice with the condescending enthusiasm of a wrestling commentator of Catch. Just arrived from the United States of America, a man of God who carries the indelible mark of the glory and the graces of the Lord. The saint, the delicious, the exceptional, the wise and the scientist, a man of God still humid of anointing, enriched by the Word, the Blessed, the Venerated, the only and the only … «
The official cops will have repeated to Amaka that « everything will be fine », we do not believe it for a moment and it is all the salt of this fiction.
