High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yoruba Girl Dancing is a novel by Nigerian author Semi Bedford. It was first published in Great Britain in 1991 and then again in the United States in 1992. The novel focuses on Remi Foster, an intelligent Yoruba girl who, at age six, journeys from her home in Nigeria to receive an education in England. After years of living abroad, Remi begins to consider herself an Englishwoman rather than a Nigerian, despite facing considerable discrimination in English private schools. A bildungsroman the novel focuses on issues of identity in the postcolonial period.