
Welcome to Lagos
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Robin Miles
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By:
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Chibundu Onuzo
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them is Fineboy, a fighter with a rebel group, desperate to pursue his dream of becoming a radio DJ; Isoken, a 16-year-old girl whose father is thought to have been killed by rebels; and the beautiful Oma, escaping a wealthy, abusive husband.
Full of humor and heart, Welcome to Lagos is a high-spirited novel about aspirations and escape, innocence and corruption. It offers a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria that marks the arrival in the United States of an extraordinary young writer.
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Amazing read.
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Beautiful written with Nigerian culture scatter throughout novel.
Narrator was not right fit for story. Different voices by another narrator for each character would have made audible “pop” !
Journey
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Interesting!!
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It did keep me in suspense until the end.
Awesome
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The story is fast-paced, well-narrated, and brings each character alive. While sometimes the plot feels a bit forced - and the end feels a bit unsatisfactory - the magic is in Onuzo’s ability to breathe life into each of these characters, so that we root for their success even when it all seems unrealistically out of reach.
Lagos in the Style of Dickens
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I can't listen to this book please
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Awful accent
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Unbearable to listen
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Difficult to listen to
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