In the middle of the night of April 14 to April 15 2014, terrorists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, fifty seven girls managed to escape. For two years, 219…
Continue ReadingA modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this …
Continue ReadingThe Black Men of Bissonnet Street explores the lives of five African men who migrate to the United States of America in the quest for a better life. People say love is like a battlefield. For these men, it becomes more literal than figurative, as th…
Continue ReadingIn the aftermath of an ill-fated union, two star-crossed lovers are forced unto separate paths. Efunsetan Aniwura, a fearless warrior, and descendant of one of the most powerful families in mid-19th century Abeokuta leaves for Ibadan to supervise he…
Continue Reading__Warri Nor Dey Carry Last is a compilation of the chronicles of Okiemute in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria. It is a rich and finely-textured fictional work which reveals the moral decadence in our society. It is a story of latent ethnic bias, love, a…
Continue ReadingEko, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the vagabonds powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. __With Tatafo as our guide we meet these peo…
Continue ReadingRacing to the sun is a story about an elope fail of Adam and Jann’a who are an unlikely match their affair altered the balance in our universe.__The promising future of Afam basketball dreams of going International or playing for Zowa National team …
Continue ReadingOn the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbors gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affair, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy th…
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