To Confront The Anti-gay Law Is To Trouble Waters: The Young Nigerian Novelist Refusing To Go By The Book

Chukwuebuka Ibehs first novel, Blessings, about love in a hostile climate, was written after a life-changing encounter with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shortly after his 18th birthday, Chukwuebuka Ibeh embarked on his first trip outside his home city of Port Harcourt. He drove more than eight hours north to Lagos for a 10-day creative writing workshop led by fellow Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of . It was a life-changing event for Ibeh, who last year published his own novel, , at the age of 24.