![]() ![]() ![]() In her second novel, “Welcome to Lagos,” young Nigerian writer Chibundu Onuzo returns to some of the themes that drove the twists and turns of her award-winning first novel, “The Spider King’s Daughter.” Lives as varied as they are storied find themselves together in Lagos, the overpopulated Nigerian city with “the aimless energy of a crowd, static electricity flowing nowhere, sparks rising from too many bodies jostling in too little space.”īut the novel begins elsewhere in the Niger Delta, an embattled oil-rich region where militants and the Nigerian army are caught up in lawless violence. ![]()
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