Chibundu Onuzo – author of the fantastic Welcome to Lagos – will be at the Open Book Festival
More about the book!

Don’t miss Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town from 6-10 September!

Onuzo was born in Lagos 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. Her most recent novel is Welcome to Lagos.

If that is not impressive enough, she sings too! Watch the video below for a demonstration of her vocal talent.

About Welcome to Lagos:

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.

Click on the link above for more about the book!