Crafting the Igbo World: Igbo Cosmology in Literary Landscapes- Chigozie Obioma with Louisa Egbunike
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Chigozie Obioma is an associate Professor at The University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has been called, in a New York Times book review, "the heir to Chinua Achebe.In 2015, He was named one of "100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine. He is best known for writing the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019),both of which were shortlisted for the Booker prize in their respective years of publication.Between the two books, his work is being translated into thirty languages.
Chigozie Obioma spoke at the virtual symposium on Disruptions: Breaks & Ruptures, which held from 17th-19th June 2020. Over the three days a range of speakers discussed significant moments of change for Igbo people, brought about by disruptive forces (both positive and negative). Conversations engaged with key historical events and changes in cultural practices, notions of identity and ways of seeing the world.
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