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The Carnivorous City

2016 novel by Toni Kan

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ111232879 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Carnivorous City is a literary fiction novel by Nigerian writer Toni Kan. His second book and his first novel, it was published in 2016 by Cassava Republic Press. The story tells human struggles in Lagos. Michael Sears of New York Journal of Books calls a memoir for Lagos.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Carnivorous City” as 2016 novel by Toni Kan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2016-10-03, 2016—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Carnivorous, City and novel can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2016 novel by Toni Kan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111232879. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Carnivorous City”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Carnivorous City primary sources, The Carnivorous City archive and Carnivorous research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Carnivorous City”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Carnivorous City” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.