Dantala, 'Born on a Tuesday' is a young boy brought up in Nigeria at the height of the regime of violence and petty crime, where gangs of street boys are in conflict with soldiers and religion and politics are at war. This book certainly made me think, I didn't expect to enjoy it but a young boy's courage to join the fight against the violence and religious extremism in his village was totally absorbing. A glimpse of recent history;
