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The Visit (Black Stars)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ()

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age16

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

SurveillancePower ImbalanceOppression

Positive tags

thought-provokingcharacter study

Tropes

DystopiaSocial SFRole ReversalMatriarchySurveillance State

Themes

Gender RolesPower and CorruptionFriendshipSocial ControlRebellionIdentityConformity vs Freedom

Synopsis

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah . One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Visit is part of Black Stars , a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

Tags

Literary FictionSpeculative FictionShort StorySocial Commentary