Kulturaustausch: Buoro

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Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and was awarded the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Buoro lives in Norwich. His debut novel "Andy Africa" has been translated by Volker Oldenburg and published by Rowohlt in Germany.

Illustration: Julia Neller
Colonialism | England
In love with Angelina Jolie
The Nigerian author Stephen Buoro rejected the culture of his homeland for a long time. Today, he criticizes how heavily it is being exploited
06/04/2025
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Fiction | Nigeria
Africa as a construct and as a continent
In his coming-of-age novel “The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa”, Stephen Buoro shows how pop culture imported from the West reinforces post-colonial trauma. A conversation
12/25/2023