I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

It's up to Kingsley now to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, and to fully assume his role of first son. He's also rumored to run a successful empire of email scams. Boniface-aka Cash Daddy-is an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket. When Kingsley turns to his Uncle Boniface for help, he learns that charity may come with strings attached. In 2019, Masobe Books earned the rights to publish I Do Not Come to You by Chance in Nigeria. 17 Set in the world of Nigerian email scams, the book tells the story of a young man, Kingsley, who turns to his Uncle Boniface for help in bailing his family out of poverty. And when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking. I Do Not Come to You by Chance is Nwaubani's debut novel, published in 2009. Now he worries that without a 'long-leg'-someone who knows someone who can help him-his degrees will do nothing. It’s not just that the focus of the book is the notorious Nigerian scam that haunts the inbox (unless you use SpamFighter, as I do) it’s also a window on what it’s really like to live in a developing country. It does not seem to matter that he loves her deeply he cannot afford her bride price.įor much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. I Do Not Come to You By Chance is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s first novel, and it’s distinctively African in its theme and setting.

Unable to find work, Kingsley cannot take on the duty of training his younger siblings, nor can he provide his parents with financial peace in their retirement. I Do Not Come to You by Chance ebook By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9781401323110 Author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Publisher Hachette Books Release Subjects Literature Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Being the opara of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges-a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation from university.

I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani