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Fall 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 4 Fiction |

Ezekiel

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Segun Afolabi was born in Nigeria and is the author of Goodbye Lucille, a novel, and A Life Elsewhere, a short-story collection. He was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2005 and is currently working on a new novel and a collection of stories.

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