![]() From there the story grows even livelier, as Onuzo spins a vivid and wild tale of crisscrossing lives and destinies in a city filled with injustice and opportunity, complexity and corruption. ![]() The unlikely comrades wind up in an abandoned basement apartment owned by Chief Sandayo, the country’s minister of education - who turns up one night, on the run with $10 million in his bags. He turns his back on his platoon and he and his junior officer, Yemi, depart for Lagos, accumulating a ragtag band of fellow travelers along the way: Isoken, a 16-year-old fleeing violence and assault at the hands of rebel fighters Fineboy, a rebel who has unlikely dreams of breaking into radio and Oma, a woman who has left her abusive spouse. " (Catapult, May 1st) opens with Nigerian army officer Chike Ameobi, who is given an order to kill innocent civilians - an order he finds he cannot follow. ![]()
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