BOYD, William.

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A Good Man in Africa. First edition, first impression, of the author's semi-autobiographical first novel. It won the 1981 Whitbread Book Award and the 1982 Somerset Maugham Award.Boyd was born in Ghana and brought up in Nigeria. "It is very much the world I knew. [The novel] is completely set in Ibadan in Western Nigeria even though I changed the names, but everybody in it is made up. It's rooted in my autobiography in terms of its colour, texture and smells... the character of Dr Murray is very much a two-dimensional portrait of my father" (White Review).

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