Caine prize-winner Helon Habila investigates why Nigerian authors are finding such literary success.
“It is not hard to see that the themes of place and identity will grow in the new Nigerian writing, because as these authors are forced to make their homes in the West due to their continuing success, they seek to imaginatively reclaim their country, and to rationalise their anger at their country for being unable to keep them, to fructify their aspirations.” – from “Is This the Year of the Nigerian Writer,” by Helon Habila, The Times