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    Aug 10, 2021 4 minutes
    Reviews editor: Vanessa Baird
    Reviewers: Peter Whittaker, Jo Lateu, Rahila Gupta

    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

    Wole Soyinka (Pantheon Books ISBN 9780593320167)

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    Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and doyen of African literature, is best known for his plays, poems and essays. A longtime anticorruption activist, he has endured imprisonment and exile. His novels are rare beasts – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is just his third. Written at the age of 86 and in the midst of a global pandemic, it is an astonishing achievement.

    The plot centres around four men who, in their student days, formed an idealistic group

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