RaveThe Sydney Morning HeraldChigozie Obioma uses the poetic language of Ibo storytelling to interrogate the light and the dark of human nature in his great, second novel ... The way Obioma has constructed Chinonso\'s thoughtful perspective precisely captures the way we all learn unfamiliar cultural cues, both in terms of objects and gestures ... In this way, there is a striking Afrocentrism and universality that sit side by side in his novel ... An Orchestra of Minorities assumes the absolute centrality of Chinonso, Ndali, the Nigerian people, and Nigeria. All other characters are peripheral as their significance is considered under the Afrocentric gaze. In Obioma\'s novel, the author peppers the narrative with Ibo phrases and cultural cues, which remind a white readership that this is a robustly Afrocentric story. Chinonso\'s story is not given meaning by the white gaze; rather, the author creates a world that has always been, and invites us in to consider it just as it is.
