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Oct 9, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Louis De Bernieres |Chukwuebuka Ibeh |C. E. McGill |Derek Miller
recommended by Emma Styles Winner of the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Saltblood by Francesca de Tores If you love adventure stories, you'll be delighted to hear that there's a book prize fully focused on them.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? My early reading featured a lot of religious texts—the Bible taking centre stage. That progressed to cheap, quick-reads I got from second-hand booksellers with titles like The Snake Girl and My Father’s Last Wife. My father sold books, and through him, I discovered the African Writers Series, where I came to find and love literary African fiction, the likes of Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta and Cyprian Ekwensi.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
washingtonblade.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
‘Blessings’By Chukwuebuka Ibehc.2024, Doubleday$28/288 pagesSometimes you just need to step back a minute. You need time to regroup, to think things through, and a scenery change is the place to do it. Get past your current position, and situations can become clearer somehow. Thoughts can be reorganized. Problems pivot. As in the new novel “Blessings” by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, you’ll have a different perspective.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
A slogan popularized in the U.S. a decade ago assured young LGBTQ people that "It Gets Better." Sadly, for gay people elsewhere (Iraq, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, scores more), the rainbow T-shirt might have to be altered to say, "It Gets Worse."That would be true in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, which has criminalized gay marriage and all types of gay expression.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Claude Peck |Chukwuebuka Ibeh
A slogan popularized in the U.S. a decade ago assured young LGBTQ people that "It Gets Better." Sadly, for gay people elsewhere (Iraq, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, scores more), the rainbow T-shirt might have to be altered to say, "It Gets Worse." That would be true in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, which has criminalized gay marriage and all types of gay expression.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
harvard.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
presenting Blessings: A Novel in conversation with ZOË GADEGBEKU Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes CHUKWUEBUKA IBEH—one of Electric Literature's "Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction" and staff writer at Brittle Paper—for a discussion of his debut novel Blessings. He will be joined in conversation by ZOË GADEGBEKU—author of the forthcoming Blue Futures, Break Open....
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
BLESSINGS, by Chukwuebuka IbehA decade ago, Nigeria freshly criminalized homosexuality. In the mostly Muslim north, the maximum penalty for even a suspected gathering of queer people became death by stoning; in the Christian south, over a dozen years in prison. The country has a deep-rooted culture of persecuting its gay citizens, but recent years have been something like a reign of terror against Nigeria's L.G.B.T.Q. community. Queer people, though, tend to be the resisting type.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
audible.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh |Sun Tzu |Jeneva Rose |James Bible
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this coming of age novel about self-acceptance, sexual awakening, and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of criminalizing same-sex relationships “Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a...
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May 15, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Chukwuebuka Ibeh
June 2024. 288p. Doubleday, $28 (9780385550642); e-book (9780385550659).
REVIEW.
First published May 15, 2024 ().
Chukwuebuka Ibeh enters the literary world with a searing debut about self, family, and community. Obiefuna is his mother’s miracle child, but an intimate moment with his father’s apprentice lands him a ticket to seminary school, where violence is currency, and his sexuality a sin.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Chukwuebuka Ibeh
'Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A sublime coming-of-age tale… an extraordinarily composed and deeply felt debut' Guardian When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence.
