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Book Review;A memoir ofNigeria;Madmen on the ground 书评;尼日利亚回忆录;尼日利亚游记; Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria. ByNoo Saro-Wiwa. 《寻找仙境：尼日利亚游记》, Noo Saro-Wiwa 著。 Throughout her childhood and early teens, NooSaro-Wiwa spent every summer in Nigeria. Theflight back always came as a shock, as was thearrival itself. The noise, decay and corruption ofLagos airport were unending, along with theinsects, power cuts and the higgledy-piggledy way of living that was far too intimate for onebrought up in Britains home counties. 孩提时代和少年时光的Noo，每年都要去尼日利亚度过她的夏季。到达尼日利亚和航班返回时的嗡嗡声一样让Noo感到厌恶。喧哗，肮脏的拉各斯机场永不停息，再加上昆虫和供电中断，这种杂乱无章的生活方式，对于从小在英国长大的noo说是陌生的。 Ms Saro-Wiwa would far rather have stayed in the family house in leafy Surrey, with its golfclubs and Leylandii trees, or holed up with her smart boarding-school friends from Roedean.But her mother thought of their Surrey home as the house, whereas their Nigerian homewas home, a character-building tropical gulag with kerosene lamps, rice-and-okra soup, body-temperature Coca-Cola and a live-in tribe of cackling uncles and aunts. Home, thatis, until Noos father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a businessman and activist from the oil-rich region ofOgoni, was arrested, imprisoned and then hanged in 1995 for his outspoken political views.The trips back to Nigeria came to an abrupt stop. | 
