Measuring Time by Helon Habila Reviewed by Anthony Cummins
Times Literary Supplement
"Helon Habila set his first novel, Waiting for an Angel (2002), in the mid 1990s, in the Nigeria of Sani Abacha, the military dictator whose brutality led to his country's being suspended from the Commonwealth. The book's artful back-to-front narrative begins when the journalist Lomba, imprisoned on charges of pro democracy activism, is discovered to have been writing in his cell. When the prison superintendent pays him a visit, we are prepared for the worst, not for what follows..." Read the entire Times Literary Supplement review.