Chigozie Obioma is an award-winning novelist whose novels “The Fishermen” (2015) and “An Orchestra of Minorities” (2019) were finalists for The Booker Prize and have been translated into 30 languages. His third and latest novel, “The Road to the Country,” takes readers on a journey of love, guilt, brotherhood, courage, and fate against the backdrop of the Biafra War. This civil war, which occurred in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, pitted the federal government of Nigeria against the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state, leading to the death of over one million Igbo people and other Easterners, as well as long-term intergenerational impacts.

In Obioma’s third book, readers follow Kunle, a university student in Lagos, who sets out to find his missing brother but is instead caught in the mid

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