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The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption

Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and…

The Conversation · Jul 2, 2024

The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma review – a brutal journey

The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2024

Emergency review – endearing yet stressful contemporary campus caper

A comedy thriller about three college friends of color weighing the risks of calling authorities is part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary

The Guardian - US · Jan 21, 2022