TITLE: The Bushmarket Day and Other Stories
AUTHOR: M.O. Obande
PUBLISHER: Informart, Kaduna
YEAR: 2012
PAGES: 212
BLURB: A stunning fruits hawker falls romantically for a divorcee and runs away from home to avoid a forced marriage with a retired old man…
In this book, the author, an ‘outsider-insider’, serves a menu of haunting tales of traditional life in contemporary Hausa land, where variegated societies are on the cusp of slow transformation into modernity. In it, classes of people from different tribal and religious backgrounds come together to form a single entity which is trapped in its past. With deft skill and finesse, M.O. Obande has proved once again his remarkable record as a leading literary craftsman in present day Nigeria.
THE AUTHOR: M.O. Obande, a building engineer, was born in 1944. He attended the Preston Polytechnic, England, for his professional studies. A seasoned educationist and administrator, he taught for years at the Kaduna Polytechnic, retiring in 1991 as Head, Department of Building, and the Dean, College of Environmental Design. After his retirement, he was appointed as the Otse Apa-Agila (a traditional ruler) by the Benue State government in 2005. He has authored a number of engineering textbooks, which were published in the United Kingdom, as well as nine rich and powerful novels that have sold well in Nigeria.
