Chigozie Obioma has a New Nonfiction Story

                     Chigozie Obioma has a New Nonfiction Story

Nigerian novelist, Chigozie Obioma, has a new non-fiction titled, “When the Risen Dust Settles.” The work is published on Alexander, a new digital storytelling platform.

Here is a summary of Obioma’s non-fiction:

“A young Chigozie Obioma heads to Nigeria’s Caritas University with dreams of becoming a writer in When the Risen Dust Settles. Instead he enters an educational system run like a totalitarian regime. He finds crude facilities, armed guards, and fearsome nuns. Students are spied upon, beaten, and expelled. The repressive structure exists all too easily in a country menaced by violent gangs, where those with power rule with impunity and university degrees are the only guarantee of a good future. Against this backdrop of fear, Obioma is forced into confrontation with the establishment, but what happens when one person stands up to the system?”

Obioma’s story is read by Ṣope Dìrísù.  The work is accompanied with a film directed by Zacker Canaperi and Drea Cooper.

Alexander is a new digital storytelling platform that offers readers three ways to enjoy a piece: a written story, an audio performance, and a short film. The app was launched in November 2020, and it has features story from writers such as Colum McCann and Xiaolu Guo, audio performances by Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy, and short films directed by filmmakers such as Charlotte Wales and Derek Zheng.

You can find Obioma’s work here https://www.alxr.com