Chigozie Obioma

Biography

Chigozie Obioma was born in Nigeria. A recipient of Hopwood awards in fiction and poetry, his works have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review and Transition. His debut novel, The Fishermen, was published in April 2015 by Little, Brown, and is being published in twelve other countries. 

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POETRY

The Road to the Country

By Chigozie Obioma

To get to the country, make sure your car is in good shape.
You must fill your tank with gas and carry more in a cask.
Take enough food, medicine, clothes, water, a mat, and a blanket.

FICTION / Summer 2011

Fishermen

By Chigozie Obioma

We were fishermen.

Father first called us so after he whipped us sore for fishing at the Ala stream in the summer of May 1995. Earlier that year, the bank had transferred him from our hometown of Akure to Yola, a volatile and violence-prone...