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          Waiting for an Angel tells the story of a Nigerian journalist called Lomba, and it begins when he is in prison – where he has been for two years awaiting the.

        1. Waiting for an Angel tells the story of a Nigerian journalist called Lomba, and it begins when he is in prison – where he has been for two years awaiting the.
        2. A story of struggle and survival in a small Nigerian village is the fruitful subject of African-born Habila's second novel (following his prize-winning.
        3. By coincidence, I am writing this review on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
        4. He was a Resistance poet for whom exile was a way of life.
        5. In our past First Draft interviews, we asked authors such as Helon Habila and Sarah Ladipo Manyika about the books they grew up reading.

          6. By coincidence, I am writing this review on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.!

          Helon Habila

          Nigerian novelist and poet (born )

          Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November )[1] is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in [2] He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.[3][4][5]

          Background

          Helon Habila was born in Kaltungo, Gombe State, Nigeria, in [6] He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Jos and lectured for three years at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.[7] In , he went to Lagos to write for Hints magazine, moving to Vanguard newspaper as Literary Editor.[8]

          Habila won the Music Society of Nigeria national poetry award for his poem "Another Age" in ,[9] the same year his short story collection Prison Storie