Nigerian novelist
Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born in 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. In the year 2009, I Do Not Come To You by Chance was recognized by the Washington Post group as one of the best books of the year and went on to win the African First Book Category in the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2010 and even secured her a Betty Trask First Book award. She ventured into Young Adult Fiction when she cue to publication Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, a novel crafted from the real-life journeys of girls held captive by Boko Haram. The book was released in September 2018 after it was acquired by HarperCollins. The book was awarded the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment and was also recognized as among the ALA best young adult fiction. The books was also selected as a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019.
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I Do Not Come To You By Chance is set in the world of Nigeria’s 419 scammers. It was a world I was very familiar with having grown up in South Eastern Nigeria. There were lots of people, lots of young men I knew who were going to, who were 419 scammers. So I wanted to write a story of how people from good homes, people from the kind of home I came from could become international financial terrorists.