Feyisayo Anjorin is a Nigerian a writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker at AFDA, Johannesburg. His writings have appeared in African Writer, Fiction On the Web, Brittle Paper, and Bakwa Magazine. He has also worked on film and television productions in Nigeria and South Africa. His latest novel, ‘Kasali’s Africa’ is a book that was inspired by his interactions with the people of Akure and their defiance in the face of 21st-century savvy ideas that could have been tolerated, if not embraced, in cities like Lagos and Johannesburg, Feyisayo zeroed-in in an email addressed to Brittle Paper. The Nigerian Feminism movement and the aftermaths of Nigerian soldiers in the first Liberian civil war also influenced the new novel.
The first part of Kasali’s Africa was the chapter “A Family Affair” (2013), which was inspired by Feyi’s contact with some conservative residents of Akure
Kasali Adebayor, a prominent farmer in the city of Akure, a husband of five wives, fancies himself as an activist for good governance while wielding the big stick of patriarchy over his family members. In the fast changing African political landscape Kasali’s family comes under the spotlight; an exposure which – initially appealing and addictive – threatens everything he holds dear and secret. Kasali’s daughter who has been a secret rebel in her father’s Akure enclave visits her aunt in Monrovia, gets drunk on her freedom, and is soon caught in the web of violence that engulfs Liberia’s Glay presidency. Kasali, weak against the subtle feminism-inspired request of his of beloved wife Mojisola, ends in a dead end that brings out the worst in him and begins the end of Kasali’s Africa.
The book is available on Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Okada Books, Loot Online (In Southern Africa) and Roving Heights (Nigeria).
