Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors' radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she's been told. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to you by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa), a Betty Trask First Book award,and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of 2009. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach.īut the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born in 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza.Ī new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband-these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languagesīased on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. OverDrive Product Record sortTitle Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree crossRefId 3682473 images
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