THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF ANDY AFRICA

313pp., paperback, London, 2023

Novel set in Kontagora, Nigeria. Teenager Andrew Aziza falls in love with the first white girl he sees - but at the church party held to celebrate her arrival a stranger claims to be his father, and an anti-Christian mob descends on the church.

“Beautiful, intelligent, and heart-wrenching.” NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory and We Need New Names

Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. A recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. he lives in Norwich, UK. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa is his debut novel.