Aye Write! Ayobami Adebayo & Chibundu Onuzo

AYOBAMI ADEBAYO & CHIBUNDU ONUZO: Welcome to Nigeria

Aye Write! is pleased to bring two of Nigeria’s finest writers to Glasgow.

Unravelling against the turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. The novel weaves a devastating story of the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak.

When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon. As moving as it is mesmerising, Chibundu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos is a novel about the power of our dreams for the future and the place of morality in a sometimes hostile world. Chaired by novelist Zoe Venditozzi.