It took a while for me to figure out how to read because unlike what I assumed in the beginning, Adaora, Agu, and Anthony are not the protagonists. Lagoon is a novel of multiple voices and perspectives, multiple conflicting, opposing, and coalescing stories of what happened that night during the landing and its aftermath. And leading the way is Adaora, a marine biologist Agu a soldier and Anthony Dey Craze, a famous Ghanaian rapper, the first three people to witness the aliens’ arrival and the first to be changed by it. The city explodes as a result of this change. Thousands of Lagosians witness or are a part of this change, from the people on the street, to the members of the church, to the military, to regular creatures, to strange creatures, to the gods of old. These aliens don’t just bring with them the promise of change-they are change. In the middle of the night, an alien ship lands in the lagoon outside the city of Lagos. Lagoon is Nnedi Okorafor’s first science fiction novel, written in an entirely Nnedi Okorafor-esque way-it’s a first contact story of aliens landing on Earth, written in the context of collision of modernity and change with tradition, folklore, and mythology. “‘Lasgidi’ you dey call am, right? Eko? Isn’t that what you people call Lagos? Place of belle-sweet, gidi gidi, kata kata, isu, and wahala. Lagos …” He patted Agu and Adaora on the shoulders and dropped into Pidgin English. She lives in Chicago, where she is a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University.Anthony laughed.
Nnedi Okorafor is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including Zahrah the Windseeker, which won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, and Who Fears Death, winner of the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It was like being thrown into the stars.' Īvailable now in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook download. Together with Ayodele, a visitor from beyond the stars, they must race through Lagos and against time itself in order to save the city, the world.
Wandering Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria's legendary mega-city, they're more alone than they've ever been before. īut when something like a meteorite plunges into the ocean and a tidal wave overcomes them, these three people will find themselves bound together in ways they could never imagine. Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa. Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist.
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