Chibundu Onuzo, The Spider King's Daughter

Herbert Ekwe Ekwe (UNIFOR - Universidade de Fortaleza)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.3: Anglophone African Writing and Culture: Subsaharan.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2012

Places

Nigeria (Country of Origin)
United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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With her

The Spider King’s Daughter

debut novel, published recently by Faber and Faber, Chibundu Onuzo offers a robust contribution to the literature of contemporary Africa’s age of pestilence, which was inaugurated in 2005 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s

Purple Hibiscus

. Onuzo is 21 and currently a history undergraduate at King’s College, London. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where both parents are practising physicians, so it is not fortuitous that Lagos should be the main setting for

The Spider King’s Daughter

. It mustn’t be forgotten that it is also in Lagos that the Nigerian state coordinated the 29 May 1966-12 January 1970 genocide it unleashed on the Igbo people, and which heralded Africa’s age of pestilence. 3.1 million Igbo people or one-quarter of this nation’s…

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Citation: Ekwe Ekwe, Herbert. "The Spider King's Daughter". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 June 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34642, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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