Girl with the Golden Scar

The Girl with the Golden Scar is the second book in the Obianuju Novel Series, the story of a school-aged Igbo girl and her peculiar childhood in northern Hausa/Fulani region of Nigeria in the 1980s Nigeria, first chronicled in The Beautiful Stars of the Night Skies. The peculiar story of Obianuju continues to be narrated in the backdrop of the widespread privatization of agricultural parastatals in Nigeria, with an illumination of the health impact of these economic policies, on the Nigerian citizenry and on the structural integrity of the Nigerian family unit.