Olu and the smugglers by Ebou Dibba

A young boy near Banjul's beaches discovers that smugglers are hiding diamonds inside canned beef and decides, against every sensible instinct, to stop them. Dibba's debut novella for young readers follows Olu, an imaginative boy prone to exaggeration, who stumbles with his friend Abu onto a diamond-smuggling operation the local police are willingly covering up. What could have been a simple adventure story becomes something sharper in Dibba's hands — a portrayal of coastal Gambian life in which adults are fallible and institutions corrupt, and children are left to fill the moral vacuum. Published by Longmans, it was the first piece of fiction set inside The Gambia by a Gambian author

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