Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé review – a historic hero

Like the protagonist of Yorùbá Boy Running, Biyi Bándélé had been running from a young age.

• Helon Habila
• The Guardian

At 14, he won a writing competition at school; another award in his 20s, for his radio play script Rain, took him to London in 1990.

He hit the ground running there, publishing his first novel, The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond, in 1991.

This was the beginning of a prolific and…

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