In Conversation With Chibundo Onuzo, Author of Mayowa and the Sea of Words

Join LoveReading4Kids Editorial Expert Joy Court and Reading Ambassadors Millie and Lucas as they chat to Chibundo Onuzo about her debut novel Mayowa and the Sea of Words published by Bloomsbury.
Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria but moved to England as a teenager. She signed the deal for her first book, the Betty Trask Award-winning The Spider King's Daughter, at nineteen. Her second book, Welcome to Lagos, was published in 2016 and in 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Chibundu's most recent novel for adults, Sankofa, was an October 2021 pick for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club.