Download or read book Waiting for an Angel written by Helon Habila and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand.