Toni Kan – författare

Rabato Sabato, better known as Soni Dike, is a Lagos big boy: a criminal turned grandee with a beautiful wife, a seafront mansion and a questionable fortune. Then, one day, he disappears, and his car is found abandoned in a ditch with the music still blaring.Soni's older brother, Abel Dike, a schoolteacher, travels to Lagos to search for him. Drawn into the city's unforgiving underworld, Abel must navigate encounters with petty criminals, corrupt police officers and his growing attraction to his brother's wife.Carnivorous City is a story of love, family and justice, but above all it is a vivid portrait of Lagos and the people who make the city by the lagoon what it is.

Nights of the Creaking Bed is full of colorful characters involved in affecting dramas: a girl who is rejected in love because she has three brothers to look after; a middle aged housewife who finds love again but has an impossible decision to make; a young man who can't get the image of his naked, beautiful mother out of his mind; a child so poor he has to hawk onions on Christmas day - and many others. Some, initially full of hope, find their lives blighted by the cruelty of others, or by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or by just not knowing the "right" people.Corruption, religious intolerance, gratuitous violence, the irresponsible attitudes of some men to their offspring and the importance of joy are some of the big themes that underlie this memorable collection.