YouTube has launched its first YouTube Africa Reading Challenge, an online reading marathon featuring authors, influencers and key opinion leaders across Africa.<\/p>\n
In a bid to help popularise the work of African authors across the continent, the personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives, a novel by the Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin.<\/p>\n
The book is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex private world of a polygamous union.<\/p>\n
The novel emerged as the top choice by Africans in a Google Africa survey conducted last July, which asked social media followers which novel by an African author they would like to see read live on YouTube.<\/p>\n
A total 40 people across Africa have since been selected to kick off the YouTube Africa Challenge, and will be reading from its pages, encouraging others to join them too.<\/p>\n
Among the notable names joining the reading challenge are:<\/p>\n
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