Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Vintage, UK. Random House, 2005, 445pp With recent elections in Edo and Ondo...
Fleeing violence and political crises in parts of the Middle East as well as poverty and economic challenges in Africa,...
What is the purpose of fiction? Is it to remember? To elicit empathy? Or to pass the time? Depending on...
All things being equal, the U.S. edition of ‘Fine Boys’, a novel by Eghosa Imasuen, will be released this month...
This is an important novel coming at a time when travelling has become a way of life. Crossing borders, breaching...
Welcome to Leye Adenle’s Lagos where, a few pages into the plot, the prologue in fact, a private jet, with...
“Michael Ajose was only twelve years old when he decided that he wanted a wife.” From that promising first line,...
The handsome young lecturer ambled into the lecture room and did not waste any time with introductions before delivering his...
For a country perched on the horn of a continent, it is easy for Eritrea to slip into the ocean...
Loss is a big theme in this anthology featuring very evocative and deeply felt tales of love and loss.
I completed my first Nigerian fiction reading for the year 2020 in a hotel in Lagos, a continuation of a...
On the 65th page of ‘Swallow’, a novel that brings alive military era Lagos, a boy is believed to have...
