{"id":6189,"date":"2023-11-19T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/?page_id=6189"},"modified":"2024-02-25T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:50:29","slug":"stephen-buoro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/stephen-buoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Buoro – The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF ANDY AFRICA
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Nicknamed Andy Africa by his friends, \u2018the droogs\u2019, fifteen-year-old Andrew Azizia lives in Kontagora, a small Nigerian town. His Catholic community are minorities in Nigeria\u2019s Muslim north but girls, not religion are Andy\u2019s main preoccupation \u2013 specifically white ones, the blonder the better. That and unravelling the mystery of who his father is, a subject on which his mother is frustratingly tight-lipped. When the European parish priest\u2019s niece comes to visit, Andy falls madly in love, just as a stranger appears, claiming to be Andy\u2019s father and, equally alarmingly, an angry mob decides it\u2019s time to rid the town of its Christians once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eccentric, surreal and very funny, Stephen Buoro takes readers down unexpected paths, weaving together pop culture references, teenage obsessions and the religious fervour embedded into every facet of contemporary Nigerian society. Buoro\u2019s satirical novel takes a superficially cheery approach to serious subjects such as the legacy of Colonialism and the oppressive threat of violence, while the hero of his novel calls to mind Adrian Mole, another teen protagonist whose ponderings are unintentionally comical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At its heart a story of self-discovery, readers will fall for the hero of The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa<\/em>, willing him on as he searches for an identity and a future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to know more? We\u2019ve created a reading guide for this book \u2013 just click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STEPHEN BUORO<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia as well as a first-class degree in Mathematics, and is a recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. He was awarded second place in the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award and is currently studying for a fully-funded PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA. Stephen Buoro now lives in Norwich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018This is extraordinary, driven by a gloriously eccentric central character. It is utterly compelling, not shy about posing difficult questions for the reader; just don’t expect it to provide any neat answers.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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