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Water baby / Chioma Okereke.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.O378255 W38 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okereke, Chioma, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lagos (Nigeria)--Fiction.
- Lagos (Nigeria).
- Drone aircraft--Fiction.
- Drone aircraft.
- Women cartographers--Fiction.
- Women cartographers.
- Young adults--Fiction.
- Young adults.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Self-realization in women--Fiction.
- Self-realization in women.
- Communities--Nigeria--Lagos--Fiction.
- Communities.
- Physical Description:
- 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Quercus Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- She's the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster. In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project, aimed at broadening the visibility of her community. Then a video of her at work goes viral and Baby finds herself with options she could never have imagined, including the possibility of leaving her birthplace to represent Makoko on the world stage. But will life beyond the lagoon be everything she's dreamed of? Or has everything she wants been in front of her all along?
- ISBN:
- 1529425409
- 9781529425406
- OCLC:
- 1376734149
- Publisher Number:
- 99996708922
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