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Nigerian author and playwright, Sefi Atta was a past winner of Â鶹Éç African Performance awards with "The Engagement" and "Makinwa's". Her latest novel ‘The Bead Collector’ is set in Lagos in the late 1970s - a period of political turmoil. She tells Focus on Africa of the stories behind the novel, and how her passion for African history and politics colours her writing. (Photo: Sefi Atta in the Â鶹Éç’s Focus On Africa studio. Credit: Â鶹Éç)