The Beautiful Stars of the Night Skies is a historical fiction novel that tellsthe story of Obianuju, a school-age girl of Igbo ancestry, and her peculiarchildhood in rural northern Hausa/Fulani region of Nigeria in the 1980s,a decade after the end of the Nigerian Civil War. It explores the complexinterplay and relationships between ethnicity/race, gender, culture, andreligion in Nigeria, along with the serious consequences and health impactof everyday Nigerian government policies on its citizenry, especially as itrelates to economic migration. Love, betrayal, trauma, survival, hope, andindustry are themes captured in this masterpiece novel.
