Noo Saro-Wiwa

Noo Saro-Wiwa is one of the world’s most influential women travel writers, according to Condé Nast Traveller. Her first book Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and named The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year. Born in Nigeria and raised in Surrey, she brings to Sherborne her marvellous and revealing second book Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China. Prepare to be gripped by her insights into this land of opportunity and meet the cardiac surgeons, visa overstayers, rascals and rappers who are blocked from most of Europe and North America. “Marvellous yet unlikely,” wrote Paul Theroux. Noo Saro-Wiwa is “a brave and resourceful traveller-interrogator - outstanding in the so-called travel writing genre.”