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Obioma is the James E. Ryan Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
At the Guardian he tagged ten books that should "enrich anyone’s understanding of Nigeria," including:
Lagoon by Nnedi OkoraforRead about another entry on the list.![]()
Can we envision a Nigeria of the future, where life as we know it is nothing like it seems? Okorafor’s novel is such a book. The novel uses Lagos, after an alien spaceship lands in the offshore waters, to construct a vision of what could become an “Africanfuturist” world.
Also see Barnaby Phillips's top ten books about Nigeria.
--Marshal Zeringue