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Vaults of Secrets

2020 novel by Olukorede Yishau

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ108089948 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vaults of Secrets is a 2020 short story collection by Nigerian writer Olukorede Yishau. It collects ten short stories.

Plot summary

Vaults of Secrets is a collection of short stories with political interpretations regarding to the governance of Nigeria.

Contents

"Till We Meet To Part No More"

"This Special Gift"

"My Mother's Father Is My Father"

"Letters From The Basement"

"This Thing Called Love"

"Better Than The Devil"

"Otapiapia"

"When Truth Dies"

"Lydia's World"

"Open Wound"

Style

The novel often switched between the author's view and the first person view.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Vaults of Secrets” as 2020 novel by Olukorede Yishau. 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—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vaults, Secrets and novel can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2020 novel by Olukorede Yishau. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108089948. The first chronological checks are 2020.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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

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  2. Expand the search: follow Vaults of Secrets primary sources, Vaults of Secrets archive and Vaults 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vaults of Secrets” 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.