Chigozie Obioma

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Nigerian-born author Chigozie Obioma reads from his newest novel, An Orchestra of Minorities. It’s an epic in the Homeric tradition, narrated by a guardian spirit called a chi, following a young poultry farmer who sacrifices his prized chickens to save a woman from jumping off a bridge.

press release: Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. His short stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and New Madrid. His first novel, The Fishermen, won the 2016 NAACP Image Award and was a Man Booker Prize finalist. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus and Turkey, and currently resides in the United States, where he teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.