No past, No present, No Future by Yulisa Amadou Maddy

Three friends in Freetown's underbelly chase ambitions colonial-era society never built room for, in a novel that openly confronted taboos of its time. Following an aspiring intellectual, an artist, and a third friend pushed to the margins of his own society, Maddy builds a frank, unsparing portrait of post-colonial stagnation in Freetown, where independence hasn't actually dismantled the structures keeping ambitious young people stuck. The novel was notable and controversial for its time in directly addressing homosexuality, a subject few African novels of the era engaged with so openly, and it remains a landmark in Sierra Leonean literature for its willingness to look unflinchingly at failure rather than triumph.

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