Suyi Davies Okungbowa closes The Nameless Republic trilogy with a question sharper than who wins the war: what happens when the people who broke a world are the ones left to rebuild it.
26 August 2026
Osvalde Lewat's prize-winning novel is about friendship, political violence and complicity. More interestingly, it is about the comfortable lies people tell themselves when somebody else is paying the price.
17 August 2026
Pemi Aguda’s debut novel turns Lagos’s transformation into a source of supernatural dread, bringing together motherhood, urban development and folklore. Its atmosphere is often striking, but its ambitious ideas are not always matched by equally developed characters or a satisfying resolution.
11 June 2026
In her new novel, Chika Unigwe places a woman who once gave up her baby at the centre of a wider examination of motherhood, shame, poverty and the choices women are forced to make when society offers them no good options.
8 March 2026
Obinna Udenwe sets out to bring Abakaliki history, culture and tradition into Nigerian fiction. Years of Shame has a compelling subject, but its rushed plot, thin characterisation and loose editing often get in the way of the story he wants to tell.
1 March 2026
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s latest novel uses a supernatural inheritance to examine marriage, female desire, family trauma and the stories women inherit about themselves.
19 December 2025
Nikki May’s This Motherless Land moves between Nigeria and England to examine family, race, privilege and the difficult work of making a home when neither place fully feels like your own.
11 January 2025
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim turns reincarnation into a way of thinking about memory, love and the many selves a person leaves behind, moving through Northern Nigerian cities in a novel whose strange premise is matched by a deeply inhabited sense of place.
6 July 2023
Emmanuel Iduma’s search for an uncle lost to the Biafran war becomes a meditation on what families inherit from history, and on what happens when private memory collides with the politics of the present.
10 May 2023
