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The Girl with the Louding Voice
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man,...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children – leaving her little time to make friends.
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Drama
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba vilage of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the jewel), ‘a true village belle’ and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty...
- Location(s): England, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Funke’s mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, conformist Funke strives to fit in, determined...
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria, and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a dark family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos,...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is Number 1. He’s the Number 1 car spotter in his village.The Number 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible Number 1, whose hobby is car spotting,...
- Location(s): Nigeria, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): folktale
When Amos Tutuola’s first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Epistolary, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
At first the vision is grainy―like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are...
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