Nigeria's young authors are not always 'heirs' to their literary forebears
- Written by The Conversation
Chigozie Obioma, whose book The Fishermen has been nominated for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. SuppliedChigozie Obioma’s Man Booker Prize nomination for The Fishermen follows by more than ten years that of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus in 2004. No other Nigerian writer has made it to the prize in between. The similarities...







