Doing It in Hellfire: Chigozie Obioma’s ‘The Road to the Country’
Blake Morrison, 18 July 2024
Kunle is a law student in Lagos with little grasp of what’s happening in the country. When his uncle asks, ‘You have heard that there is war in Eastern Region, abi?’ he shakes his head. He’s a lonely, ‘hermitic’ sort of boy. Since his transistor radio ran out of batteries, he hasn’t kept up with current events. Now term is over there’s no...