This book is supposed to be Okorafor’s reaction to the film District 9 which is a SF movie with aliens set in Africa. This was a huge part of the book actually, not only the difference of species but of profession, education, genre,sexual orientation and origin. It was an intriguing reflexion on what it meens to be different. Speaking of the aliens, I liked the fact that they could change into humans and that the only way to recognize them was by noticing the feeling of “oddness” that they had.
For me, aliens were more a pretext for the book than anything else, since the biggest problem in this book isn’t the alien invasion exactly but more the way humans react to what they don’t know. It would say that it is as much a fantasy novel than a sci-fi one. Don’t go into it expecting a hard science book because it’s not what you are going to get. In term of synopsis, I don’t want to say to much because I think that it is better to go into this book blind, however since it’s a first contact story, it deals with lots of themes like politics, religion and the fear of the unknown. They happen to be the ones to meet, Ayodele, the alien ambassador. It follows three main characters, Adaora, a marine biologist, Agu, a soldier and Anthony a famous rapper who met at Bar Beach at the moment an alien ship crashes into the ocean.
Lagoon is a story about aliens but mostly about humans. I never read or watch as many book reviews of a novel before to try to figure out where I stand with it… I finished this booka week ago and I still don’t know if I enjoyed it or not. “If there were aliens, they certainly wouldn’t come to Nigeria.
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