Welcome to Lagos

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Faber & Faber, Jan 3, 2017 - Fiction - 256 pages

Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018

Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.
They are unlikely allies -- a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young girl. They share a need for escape and a dream for the future.
Soon, they will also share a burden none of them expected, but for now, the five sit quietly with their hopes, as the billboards fly past and shout: Welcome to Lagos.

 

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Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
Copyright

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About the author (2017)

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is completing a PhD on the West African Student's Union at King's College London

Bibliographic information

TitleWelcome to Lagos
AuthorChibundu Onuzo
PublisherFaber & Faber, 2017
ISBN057126896X, 9780571268962
Length256 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Literary
Travel / Africa / West
  
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