![]() Onyii is such a soldier, a young woman and war hero who lives to protect both her new nation and her adopted orphaned sister Ify. The war has left much of the area saturated in radioactivity that kills or mutates the local wildlife, and battles are fought using unmanned drones, human-piloted mechs, and augmented soldiers refitted with bionic limbs. Nigeria is a country rent by turmoil, where the breakaway southeastern province of Biafra has formed its own nation (as it did in real life between 1967-1970) and battles Nigeria to secure its independence. Climate change and war have destroyed much of the Earth, and millions have fled the planet to live in orbiting Colonies. War Girls is a novel of intense, determined hope in the face of overwhelming obstacles in this current historical moment it’s exactly the book we need. What Tochi Oneybuchi has done with his powerful new novel War Girls is to combine these knowns into a story of love and sisterhood that together cross political and social divides and battlefields alike, and where traumatized soldiers dream of a true peace in a thriving, reborn nation. ![]() Finally, no one is ignorant that technology continues, as it always has, to make war exponentially deadlier in its efficiency. ![]() ![]() Nor is it news that children in the 20 th and 21 st centuries have been suborned into brutal combat across the globe. The facts that war is brutal, savage, and harms the innocent together with the guilty are no new revelations. ![]()
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