Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on being an African writer today – arts24

Posted by KingFadray April 30, 2026


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In this edition we head to Morocco for the Marrakech African Book Festival (FLAM), a key gathering for writers, thinkers and novelists from across Africa and its diaspora. Our team sits down with Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, whose acclaimed works “The Fishermen” and “An Orchestra of Minorities” were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 


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Lyana Saleh

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