Description
Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2018.
"Never cover an assignment without collecting a brown envelope," Boniface had said. "It is a real life saver for all journalists in this country."
Ifiok, a young journalist working for the government radio station in Lagos, Nigeria, always aspires to do the right thing, but the odds seem to be stacked against him. Government pressures cause the funding to his radio drama to get cut off, his girlfriend leaves him when she discovers he is having an affair with an intern, and kidnappings and militancy are on the rise in the country. When Ifiok travels to his hometown to do a documentary on some ex-militants' apparent redemption, a tragi-comic series of events will make him realise he is unable to swim against the tide of corruption.
Building on the legacy of the great African satirist tradition of Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ayi Kwei Armah, Radio Sunrise paints a sharp-tongued portrait of (post) post-colonial Nigeria.
Author: Anietie Isong
Publisher: Jacaranda Books
Published: 03/02/2023
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
ISBN13: 9781914344138
ISBN10: 1914344138
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
ANIETIE ISONG has worked as a journalist, speechwriter and public relations manager in the UK and abroad. His writing has received some awards, including a Commonwealth Short Story Award and the Remember Oluwale Writing Prize.
Anietie holds an MA in Communications from the University of Leicester, and completed a PhD in New Media and Writing at De Montfort University, Leicester.