![]() ![]() Lagos as a framing device illustrates the shifting, often tenuous connections between the public and private lives of Nigeria’s citizenry, and the specificity of Onuzo’s details fully embodies each character. Soon, Lagos will bring them together for a moment that subverts and confirms everything they’ve ever known. ![]() While the minister of education, Chief Sandayọ, decides he won’t go quietly if he’s replaced, the Nigerian Journal‘s editor in chief, Ahmed Bakare, wants to combat the country’s stagnant corruption. Meanwhile, the tides are shifting among Lagos’s elite. They’ve arrived, but suddenly they’re five. Spotted as deserters, they’re forced to take these two witnesses to Lagos, too.Ī fellow traveler, Oma, helps them find a hotel. Fleeing, they pick up the human detritus of their actions: Fineboy, a young rebel soldier, and Isoken, the teenage orphan he may have tried to rape. In the Niger Delta, Chike Ameobi and Yẹmi Ọkẹ, two disaffected soldiers, desert their post. As their lives converge, five travelers from the Niger Delta are thrown together with two of Nigeria’s privileged class high class or low, all of them must survive Lagos itself. Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo’s US debut, follows an unlikely group of Nigerians bound together by circumstance. ![]()
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