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This debut, following a Nigerian teenager sold into domestic slavery, contains linguistic exuberance and emotional heft
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You get a good flavour of the writing in The Girl with the Louding Voice from its opening paragraphs:
This morning, Papa call me inside the parlour.
He was sitting inside the sofa with no cushion and looking me. Papa have this way of looking me one kind. As if he wants to be flogging me for no reason, as if I am carrying shit inside my cheeks and when I open mouth to talk, the whole place be smelling of it. Continue reading...