The Forger’s TaleBetween 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forgers Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English