One Man, One Matchet
Appearance
First edition | |
Author | T. M. Aluko |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1964 |
Publication place | Nigeria |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 203 |
ISBN | 978-0435900113 (reissued) |
Preceded by | One Man, One Wife (1959) |
Followed by | Kinsman and Foreman (1966) |
One Man, One Matchet is a novel written by Nigerian author T. M. Aluko and published in London[1] in the year 1964 as the 11th book in the Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel tells the story of a community in Western Nigeria during the end of the colonial period and beginning of independence. Set in a small community where the majority of the inhabitants are dependent on the revenue from their cocoa crops, the story looks at the role of the semi-literate[2] Benjamin Benjamin in the small community.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ M, Aluko, T. (1968). One man, one matchet. London: Heinemann Educational Books. OL 24394595M.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Aluko, T. M. (1964). One Man, One Matchet. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-435-90011-3.
- ^ "Complete Review".
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Categories:
- Novels set in the British Empire
- Novels set in colonial Africa
- Historical novels
- Nigerian English-language novels
- Novels set in Nigeria
- 1964 Nigerian novels
- Heinemann (publisher) books
- Postcolonial novels
- African Writers Series
- British Empire stubs
- 1960s historical novel stubs
- Nigerian novel stubs
- Postcolonialism stubs