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Ein in den USA lebender nigerianischer Akademiker besucht seine amerikanische Frau Gina in Berlin. Gina ist Kunststipendiatin und arbeitet derzeit an einem Projekt über Migrant*innen. Auch der Protagonist lernt in Berlin viele afrikanische Immigrant*innen und Geflüchtete kennen und erfährt so von ihren Fluchterlebnissen. Diese Begegnungen führen bei ihm, der als schwarzer Intellektueller ein privilegiertes und sicheres Leben führt, völlig uner...

Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision...a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has ...

Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the barriers of waves, human failings and unrealistic dreams.The novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news. I loved it. It is Habila at his best' Leila AboulelaPoignant and beautifu...

In Port Harcourt im Nigerdelta regieren die internationalen Ölkonzerne, die vor der Küste Nigerias bohren. Als die Ehefrau eines hochrangigen Mitarbeiters entführt wird und eine Lösegeldforderung eintrifft, wittert der junge Journalist Rufus eine große Story. Gemeinsam mit dem gealterten Starreporter Zaq reist er ins Nigerdelta und betritt eine apokalyptische Welt, in der die kleinen Fischer als Spielball der Großen und Mächtigen ums Überleben...

Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision...a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has ...

In the oil-rich and environmentally devestated Nigerian Delta, a British oil executive's wife has been kidnapped. Two journalists - a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq - are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and cynical disillusionment in a journey full of danger and unintended consequences. As they navigate polluted...

Includes 29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary authors, Habila. Contributors include Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie, Fatou Diome and many others.

Helon Habila is the author of Oil on Water, Measuring Time, Waiting for an Angel, andThe Chibok Girls. He is professor of creative writing at George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.

In the oil-rich and environmentally devestated Nigerian Delta, a British oil executive's wife has been kidnapped. Two journalists - a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq - are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and cynical disillusionment in a journey full of danger and unintended consequences. As they navigate polluted...

One of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers selects 35 short stories by the best new African writers, defined as the 'post nationalist generation', following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

Boko Haram ontvoerde ruim twee jaar geleden 267 meisjes van de middelbare school in Chibok. De veelgeprezen Nigeriaanse romanschrijver Helon Habila, afkomstig uit de streek, keerde terug naar Chibok, legde contact met de familie en sprak ontvoerde meisjes. Vervuld van mededogen en met een diepgaand inzicht in de historische context beschrijft Habila de opkomst van Boko Haram en de inadequate reactie daarop van de Nigeriaanse regering. Habila b...

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The new generation of 21st-century African writers have now come of age. Without a doubt Habila is one of the best."--Emmanuel Dongala.

Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women. Mamo, the sickly, awkward twin, is doomed to remain in the village with his father. Gradually he comes out of his father's shadow and gains loc...

In rescuing the Chibok tragedy from 'mythic status, ' Habila's unusual primer quietly yet powerfully revives the call to take notice."--The AtlanticOn April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most were never heard from again. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate ...

Helon Habila is the author of Oil on Water, Measuring Time, Waiting for an Angel, andThe Chibok Girls. He is professor of creative writing at George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.

Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his roommate is brutally attacked by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a wealthy old man, and his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. ...