One Man, One Matchet

One Man, One Matchet

First edition
Author T. M. Aluko
Country Nigeria
Language English
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Heinemann
Publication date
1964
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 203
ISBN 978-0435900113 (reissued)
Preceded by One Man, One Wife (1959)
Followed by Kinsman and Foreman (1966)

One Man, One Matchet is Nigeriann author T. M. Aluko, published in 1964 as the 11th book in the Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel tells the story of a community in Western Nigeria during the end of the colonial period and beginning of independence. Set in a small community where the majority of the inhabitants are dependent on the revenue from their cocoa crops, the story looks at the role of the semi-literate Benjamin Benjamin in the small community.[1]

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