num_pages: 128
description: Bangui Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou the two widows of Lidou. Following their husbands sudden and unexplained death they find themselves fighting tooth and nail for all that is important to them. A playful bittersweet story full of dry wit and local colour set against a backdrop of political instability corruption and the friction between the old and the new.
language: English
title: Co-wives, Co-widows
publisher: Dedalus Books