Nsukka Is Burning

Playwright Inua Ellams explores how writers from Nsukka, a university town in southeastern Nigeria, have continued to bloom in spite of erasure and exile.

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  • Type: Analysis
  • Channel: BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 27'36''
  • Broadcast date: 2020
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