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Catapult

9781646221585

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Sankofa

Chibudno Onuzo’s novel is enjoyably readable and disarmingly frank as it follows a woman in search of her father.

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Review of ‘Sankofa’

While searching through her dead mother’s possessions, Anna Bain finds an old journal of her father’s, a discovery that she hopes will offer clarity about a person she never really knew. So begins Chibundu Onuzo’s third novel, Sankofa, an enjoyably readable novel that raises questions of belonging and the search for personal roots. 

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