I Do Not Come To You By Chance

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (Author)

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About the Author

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, journalist, essayist, and humorist. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, she is the first contemporary African writer to launch a global career while fully domiciled in her home country. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa).

Her debut Young Adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, based on dozens of interviews with women and girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram, was published by HarperCollins in September 2018. It won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment and was named as one of the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults.

Her essays and reportage have been featured in dozens of publications around the world, including The New Yorker, Guardian, and New York Times. She writes a regular column for the BBC’s ‘Letter from Africa’.

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Publisher Brains & Noble

Publication date June 13, 2026

Condition new

Author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Interior Black_white

Item model number BN-39370

Category Brains & Noble