CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.

Nigeria-born Ben Okri came to England as a child and returned to Nigeria with his parents just as the Nigerian Civil War began, which he says has had an indelible impact on his work. Chen edited Riot Baby (Jan. 2020), the adult debut of Nigerian-American YA author Tochi Onyebuchi, a dystopian novel that tackles police brutality and institutionalized racism. Onyebuchi also has a YA novel this season: War Girls (Razorbill, Oct., ages 12-up), set in a future Nigeria and inspired by his mother's story of growing up during the civil war there. [Extracted from the article]

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