Shortly after his 18th birthday, Chukwuebuka Ibeh embarked on his first trip outside his home city of Port Harcourt. He drove more than eight hours north to Lagos for a 10-day creative writing workshop led by fellow Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.
It was a life-changing event for Ibeh, who last year published his own novel, Blessings, at the age of 24.
