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Chigozie Obioma

literature
Calendar

zaterdag 8 november 2025

Time

13:00 - 14:00

Location

BorderKitchen, Kerkstraat 11

Price

€10

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AUTHOR

Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into more than 29 languages.  His most recent book is  The Road to the Country (2024) which he will talk about at the Crossing Border Festival. 

Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to free himself. When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission. Kunle’s search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands, all while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer, he who marks Kunle as an abami eda—one who will die and return to life.

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The road to the country

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