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Examples
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I've never been exposed to the bus preachers but I remember a week I stayed in Onitsha, it was literally impossible to sleep all friday night.
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That is what Geoffroy saw on the faces when he first arrived in Onitsha.
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio reads an extract from his book "Onitsha" for Nobelprize. org.
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His 1992 novel, "Onitsha," offers us a child's perception of what seems to be a slice of Mr. Le Clézio's own boyhood.
A Nobel Undertaking: 2008
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7, Gustave traveled to Nigeria with his family and spent a year out of school, an experience he recalled later in his semiautobiographal novel "Onitsha" (1991).
Free Internet Press 2008
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DENTON, Texas—Ugoo Anieto dreamed of making it in America while growing up in Onitsha, Nigeria.
A Green-Card Dream, Deferred Ana Campoy 2011
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Mr. Anieto, the molecular biologist, dreamed of making it in America ever since he was a young boy in Onitsha, Nigeria, following Michael Jordan's victories with the Chicago Bulls and watching Bill Cosby on television.
A Losing Ticket in the American Lottery Miriam Jordan 2011
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Jarlsbo, Jeana, Écriture et altérité dans trois romans de J.M.G. Le Clézio: Désert, Onitsha et La quarantaine.
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In the morning they wait on the quays of Onitsha, immobile, balancing on one leg, like scorched statues, Chuku's envoys on earth.
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Men and women of the Umundri people, in the streets of Onitsha; absurd shadows wandering in the alleyways of red dust, among the acacia groves, with their herds of goats and their dogs.
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