Welcome to Lagos

Summary: "When the 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 scandel 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 are Fineboy, a fighter with a rebel group, desperate to pursue his dream of becoming a radio DJ; Isoken, a sixteen-year-old girl whose father is thought to have been killed by rebels; and the beautiful Oma, escaping a wealthy, abusive husband. Welcome to Lagos is a high-spirited novel about aspirations and escape, innocence and corruption. Full of humor and heart, it offers a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria that marks the arrival in the United States of an extraordinary young writer."--Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 9781936787807
ISBN: 1936787806
ISBN: 9781936787814
ISBN: 1936787814
ISBN: 9781936787814
Physical Description: print
293 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Catapult, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Faber & Faber.

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Subject:

Armed Forces Officers Fiction
Desertion, Military Fiction
Life change events Fiction
Lagos (Nigeria) Fiction
Life change events
Nigeria Lagos
Life change events Fiction
Lagos (Nigeria) Fiction
FICTION / Cultural Heritage
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Political

Genre:

Psychological fiction.
Fiction.

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