Welcome to Lagos
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Welcome to Lagos
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The work Welcome to Lagos represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Welcome to Lagos
- Statement of responsibility
- Chibundu Onuzo
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- Lagos (Nigeria) -- Fiction
- trueRefugees
- trueAfrican resistance and revolts
- trueMilitary desertion
- trueElectronic books
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueResistance to government
- Armed Forces -- Officers -- Fiction
- Desertion, Military -- Fiction
- trueRebels
- truePolitical corruption
- trueArmed Forces -- Officers
- trueNigeria
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A provocative portrait of a rapidly-changing Nigeria by a "tremendous" young novelist who is "energizing the form." (William Boyd, The Guardian) When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them is Fineboy, a fighter with a rebel group, desperate to pursue his dream of becoming a radio DJ; Isoken, a 16-year-old girl whose father is thought to have been killed by rebels; and the beautiful Oma, escaping a wealthy, abusive husband. Full of humor and heart, Welcome to Lagos is a high-spirited novel about aspirations and escape, innocence and corruption. It offers a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria that marks the arrival in the United States of an extraordinary young writer
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2018.
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Target audience
- adult
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