Ekwensi was a Nigerian author, studying in Britain at the time he wrote these tales, originally for radio plays for his fellow Nigerians in Britain.  Nigeria was still a British colony at the time, 1954, but it was in the process of establishing independence, doing so in 1960.  The City referred to is Lagos (although never called that), where Britain had first established itself, in order to stop the slave trade that had been established there.  It soon was an important port for all colonial […]