T. M. Aluko

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T. M. Aluko was a Nigerian novelist, civil engineer and town planner. Born in 1918 at Ilesha in Western Nigeria, he was educated at Ilesha and Government College, Ibadan, and studied civil engineering and town planning in Lagos and London. In 1960 he was appointed Director of Public Works for Western Nigeria. Several of his novels appeared in Heinemann's African Writers Series and are known for their comic and satirical attention to social change, bureaucracy, politics and professional life.

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