Turaki, Umar
Entry updated 3 April 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Nigerian author, now in Canada, active from around 2015. He is of sf interest for his first novel, the Young Adult Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold (2022), set in a Near Future Africa village totally cut off the rest of the world because it houses the Grey, a Pandemic that kills everyone except children. The young protagonist leaves the village looking to return with a cure (and an adult Identity), while his siblings construct something of a community to which, on he redemptive arrival back home, he can bear gifts. [JC]
Umar Usman Turaki
born Jos, Nigeria
works
- Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold (New York: Little A, 2022) [hb/Kimberly Glyder]
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