Anietie Isong

Anietie Isong

Anietie Isong has won several writing prizes including the Commonwealth Short Story Award and the inaugural Olaudah Equiano Prize for Fiction. In 2009, his short story Devotion was selected as one of the exciting new stories from the next generation of English short story writers and published in the anthology Roads Ahead, edited by Catherine O’Flynn. Anietie studied at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leicester. Radio Sunrise is his first novel.

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    Radio Sunrise

    Ifiok, a young journalist working for a public radio station in Lagos, Nigeria, aspires to always do the right thing but the odds seem to be stacked against him. Government pressures cause the funding to his radio drama to get cut off, his girlfriend leaves him when she discovers he is having an affair with an intern, and kidnappings and militancy are on the rise in the country. When Ifiok travels to his hometown to do a documentary on some ex-militants’ apparent redemption, a tragi-comic series of events will make him realise he is unable to swim against the tide. Radio Sunrise paints a satirical portrait of post-colonial Nigeria that builds on the legacy of the great African satirist tradition of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Ayi Kwei Armah.

    ₦5,500.00