In “When the Risen Dust Settles,” available on the new Alexander app, Chigozie Obioma, English, focuses on the history of a Nigerian university headed by a charismatic Catholic priest. The work was mentioned in a Jan. 8 TheVibes.com article on the app.
Obioma’s “The Strange Story of the World” was featured in a Jan. 11 Longreads article titled “Ten outstanding shorts stories to read in 2021.”
He has been selected to contribute a work of non-fiction exploring Nigeria to a Borough Press collection, The Bookseller reported Jan. 11.
He also wrote a Jan. 12 piece for Esquire magazine about a chance encounter during his time as a teenage street evangelist in Nigeria. Yahoo! News picked up the piece.
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William G. Thomas III, history, discussed his new book, “A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War,” Jan. 12 on WYPR.
