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Second Class Citizen

Second Class Citizen
  • Author(s): Buchi Emecheta
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children.

Shifting Allegiances

Shifting Allegiances
  • Author(s): Amaka Lily
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A wonderful first person narrative of a Nigerian girl’s impressions of America and the effects of culture shock. Deka has had a difficult life in Nigeria. The most populous nation in Africa suffers from corruption and rampant poverty. She...

Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle

Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle
  • Author(s): Amos Tutuola
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle is the fabulous tale of Simbi, a rich and beautiful girl with a wonderful singing voice. She tires of her comfortable lifestyle, and decides that she must come to know poverty...

Song for Night

Song for Night
  • Author(s): Chris Abani
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

“Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity,...

Songs of Enchantment

Songs of Enchantment
  • Author(s): Ben Okri
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Myth and naturalism are combined in the story of Azaro, the spirit-child who lives in an impoverished African village, and the upheavals that he and his family face

Sozaboy

Sozaboy
  • Author(s): Ken Saro-Wiwa
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Nigerian Civil War

Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author’s use of ‘rotten English’—a mixture of Nigerian pidgin...

Stars of the New Curfew

Stars of the New Curfew
  • Author(s): Ben Okri
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s

This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their...

Stay With Me

Stay With Me
  • Author(s): Ayòbámi Adébáyò
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide...

Swallow

Swallow
  • Author(s): Sefi Atta
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In the 1980s in Lagos, the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are in full swing. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as...

Swimming Between Worlds

Swimming Between Worlds
  • Author(s): Elaine Neil Orr
  • Location(s): Nigeria, Winston-Salem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as...

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