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Book · 2009
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Unable to secure an engineering job to support his family during a financial crisis, an educated young Nigerian turns to his wealthy uncle, a notorious email scam kingpin. As he rises within the lucrative enterprise of 419 fraud, he faces difficult moral choices between family loyalty, ambition, and personal integrity.
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Really enjoyed this one. It made me laugh ALOT & this rarely happens these days. Reminds me of the good old days when Nigerian literature GAVE everything. The characters, the story, the pace, the humor — in fact, everything just worked!
Tosin on Goodreads A delightful satire on Nigerian email 419 scams and the problems that plague Nigerian society in general. Funny and with excellent pacing, it lampoons as much as it addresses serious issues. A fantastic first novel. Multiple award winner.
Berengaria on Goodreads It takes talent to make sympathetic characters of adults who fleece others for a living. Nwaubani does it with skill and a strong sense of humor.
Candice on Goodreads Nwaubani really manages, in this book, to humanize a profession for which most of us have so much scorn (for the dupers and dupees, I know I’ve always wondered who actually falls for those emails!), and shows how it is accepted in parts of Nigeria. She shows the mentality behind it, and I have to admit that some of the scams were pretty clever.
Amy McKeever on Amy Reads my people are great storytellers...the eloquence of all that is nigeria shines through in the prose and personal lives of this very realisic tale. there were so many truisms that is had to not think of kingsley ibe as flesh and bone. as a first born child i understand the pressure he feels as being opara.
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