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David Mogo, Godhunter

David Mogo, Godhunter
  • Author(s): Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

The gods have fallen to earth in their thousands, and chaos reigns. Though broken and leaderless, the city endures. David Mogo, demigod and godhunter, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver...

Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary
  • Author(s): Janet Kelly
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Dear Beneficiary follows the adventures of Cynthia Hartworth, a feisty sixty- year- old woman who, despite strong convictions that she has everything in her life under her control, finds out the modern world isn’t always as it seems. Widowed...

Dele Weds Destiny

Dele Weds Destiny
  • Author(s): Tomi Obaro
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

Three women. Three decades. The friendship of a lifetime. Zainab, Funmi and Enitan first meet at University in northern Nigeria, all learning how to become themselves. It’s an experience that binds the three very different women together. When Enitan...

Double Yoke

Double Yoke
  • Author(s): Buchi Emecheta
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Set on the campus of a Nigerian university, Double Yoke tells the story of two undergraduates who must confront the conflicting demands of tradition and modernity. While Nko pursues an education despite the resistance of those who feel a...

Easy Motion Tourist

Easy Motion Tourist
  • Author(s): Leye Adenle
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Nigeria

Easy Motion Tourist is a compelling crime novel set in contemporary Lagos. It features Guy Collins, a British hack who stumbles by chance into the murky underworld of the city. A woman’s mutilated body is discarded by the side...

Efuru

Efuru
  • Author(s): Flora Nwapa
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by two ordinary undistinguished husbands

Everything Good Will Come

Everything Good Will Come
  • Author(s): Sefi Atta
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1980s

It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to...

Feather Woman of the Jungle

Feather Woman of the Jungle
  • Author(s): Amos Tutuola
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fantasy
  • Era(s): timeless

In Feather Woman of the Jungle, the people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch...

Flowers and Shadows

Flowers and Shadows
  • Author(s): Ben Okri
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In the hustle of Lagos, a series of disturbing events strip the young Jeffia Okwe of his innocence and reveal the ruthlessness of his own father. The tragic climax of the tale leaves Jeffia cleansed of the sins of...

Foreign Gods, Inc.

Foreign Gods, Inc.
  • Author(s): Okey Ndibe
  • Location(s): Nigeria, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed’s power to subsume all things, including the sacred. Foreign Gods, Inc.,...

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