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    New Play: For Nigerian Expat, Going Home Again Is A Real Trip

    We talk to the author of The Homecoming Queen, which opened in New York this week. Like the character in her play, Ngozi Anyanwu knows what it's like to live in two very different cultures.
    by Diane Cole Jan 24, 2018 4 minutes
    In the play <em>The Homecoming Queen</em>, Kelechi (played by Mfoniso Udofia) is a best-selling novelist who returns to her native village in Nigeria for the first time since leaving for the U.S. 15 years earlier.

    Can you go home again? What is home, anyway, when you are a Nigerian-born expat living in America?

    That's the dilemma Ngozi Anyanwu dramatizes with equal parts of heartbreak and humor in her new play, The Homecoming Queen, which premiered on January 22 at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. It tells the story of Nigerian-born Kelechi, who had left her native village for a new life in America 15 years before. Now a best-selling novelist, Kelechi returns for the first time since then, to visit her aging father as well as revisit aspects of her life she left behind.

    When she arrives, she is clearly

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