In his essay, "Growing Up During the Occupation," Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe describes his war-addled childhood as watching the adults sit around and cry in front of the radio as the children sat ...

Okparanta's excellent debut novel is a heartbreaker. Ijeoma is a young girl in civil war-torn Ojoto, Nigeria. When the war takes her father, and her mother can no longer care for her, she is sent away ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinelo Okparanta’s remarkable debut novel tackles big issues. It begins with a powerful indictment of ...