Welcome to lagos summary by chibundu onuzo

The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Onuzo, Chibundu. Welcome to Lagos. New York: Catapult, 2018.

The novel begins in the Nigerian Delta, where an officer in the Nigerian Army named Chike Ameobi and his fellow soldier Yęmi Ọkẹ deserted their post after being ordered to burn down a village full of civilians.

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Making their way to the city of Yenagoa, Chike and Yęmi encountered two young people, a member of a nearby militant group named Fineboy, and a teenage girl named Isoken who had been separated from her parents. She claimed that Fineboy's fellow guerrilla soldiers had attempted to rape her, but he swore he was not involved.

The ragtag group continued on together to Yenagoa, and then to Lagos. On the bus to Lagos, Chike met Oma, a woman who had just left her abusive husband.

Meanwhile, in Lagos, Ahmed Bakare, the founder and senior editor of the Nigerian Journal told his staff about the recently burned vill