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False Allegiance

False Allegiance
  • Author(s): Nick Thacker
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gambia / Senegal border
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...

Igboland

Igboland
  • Author(s): Jeff Gardiner
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

A NEW LIFE THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM HOME Lydia and Clem Davie arrive in an Igbo village in Nigeria in July 1967 just as civil war breaks out, but Lydia has trouble adjusting to life in West Africa: a...

Lagoon

Lagoon
  • Author(s): Nnedi Okorafor
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders, thieves, and crackpots are trying to control the message on...

The Lagos Wife

The Lagos Wife
  • Author(s): Vanessa Walters
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NOTE: This is the same as The Nigerwife Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of Lagos and a glamorous group of friends. She left London and a troubled family past...

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanna

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanna
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé
  • Location(s): Mali, Guadeloupe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow...

This Motherless Land

This Motherless Land
  • Author(s): Nikki May
  • Location(s): England, Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1978 - 1998

When Funke’s mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, sensible Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them....

Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
  • Author(s): Christie Watson
  • Location(s): Lagos, Warri
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Blessing (12) and her brother Ezekiel (14) find their comfortable lives in Lagos change immensely when their parents separate. They move to near Warri, their Mother’s village. This is the story of the small family adapting to a different...

A New Day Dawns (Travels with Terry #2)

A New Day Dawns (Travels with Terry #2)
  • Author(s): Terry Lister
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Liberia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2017

He’s Back! In his first book, Immersed in West Africa, Terry Lister took readers on a harrowing West African adventure in Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. In A New Day Dawning, the second installment of the...

Accra Noir (Akashic Noir)

Accra Noir (Akashic Noir)
  • Author(s): Nana-Ama Danquah (Editor)
  • Location(s): Accra
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana...

Chasing Black Unicorns. How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s Most Wanted list

Chasing Black Unicorns. How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s Most Wanted list
  • Author(s): Marek Zmyslowski
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Silicon Valley meets Indiana Jones – Chasing Black Unicorns is an autobiography written by Marek Zmysłowski, one of Poland’s most respected internet entrepreneurs. Witty and humorous, the book covers many dramatic and often dangerous events. Before moving to Nigeria...

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