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Nigerians in Space
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1993. Houston. Dr. Wale Olufunmi, lunar rock geologist, has a life most Nigerian immigrants would kill for, but then most Nigerians aren’t Walea great scientific mind in exile with galactic ambitions. Then comes an outlandish order: steal a piece of the moon. With both personal and national glory at stake, Wale manages to pull off the near impossible, setting out on a journey back to Nigeria that leads anywhere but home. Compelled by Wale’s impulsive act, Nigerians traces arcs in time and space from Houston to Stockholm, from Cape Town to Bulawayo, picking up on the intersecting lives of a South African abalone smuggler, a freedom fighter’s young daughter, and Wale’s own ambitious son. Deji Olukotun’s debut novel defies categorizationa story of international intrigue that tackles deeper questions about exile, identity, and the need to answer an elusive question: what exactly is brain gain?
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Deji Bryce Olukotun
Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of Nigerians in Space. His work has been featured in Vice, Slate, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, The Atlantic, Guernica, The Millions, World Literature Today, ESPN, and elsewhere. After the Flare is the second novel in the Nigerians in Space series.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nigerians in Space may very well be the best fiction book I will have read in 2014. I find myself reading more non-fiction these days, afraid of the frequent disappointment with new fiction, but I am glad that I won Nigerians in Space in the Goodreads First Reads (thanks!) giveaway.I could describe the book in terms of the plot (the events set off by a Nigerian official promising a scientific leap in the home country to successful Nigerian scientists who like abroad), story (the emotional struggle of characters to fend off the fear and alienation as they are forced to abandon their familiar lives and live in foreign and strange lands, creating false identities and new pasts with the hopes for a better, clearer, calmer, more peaceful features), or the structure (the story of three main characters and the loose connections between their chaotic and blurry pasts colliding in a surprising climax), but perhaps the best way to describe Olukotun’s novel is that it makes sense out of utter chaos. And he does it in an unapologetic manner, without stopping to explain the chaos, but simply telling the story as a lens that the reader can, if she chooses to, use to see the mess in a different way. Nigerians in Space is a bold tour de force, a mystery full of thrill, and an adventure full of heartbreak. Highly recommended for those who like mollusks, telescopes, and moonlight.
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