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Exploration, Travel & Travel History

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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

9:00am | Saturday 31 March 2012
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Noo Saro-Wiwa describes the Transwonderland amusement park as the nearest thing Nigeria has to Disneyland. The rides are rusting and covered in weeds – but they are working. Saro-Wiwa, the daughter of murdered anti-corruption activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, sets out to capture the country of contrasts that is Nigeria in the 21st century. She was brought up and educated in the UK, returning every summer to Nigeria, until the death of her father.
She crossed Africa in her role as a travel writer for 15 years but did not return to Nigeria until 2007, ten years after the death of her father. Saro-Wiwa rediscovers the chaos and the beauty of a country her father loved so much. Here she talks to Dr Alastair Niven, principal of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, and author of several books on post-colonial writing.

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