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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...

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...

Blackass

Blackass
  • Author(s): A Igoni Barrett
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Satire
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red...

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...

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...

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...

Gibbous Moon Over Lagos

Gibbous Moon Over Lagos
  • Author(s): Pamela Watson
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2005

In 2005, Australian Pamela Watson, a one-time intrepid cyclist who pedalled her way solo across Africa turned Lagos-based businesswoman, embarked on a thrilling five-year entrepreneurial journey in this turbulent city. Share her highs creating a successful management consultancy and...

GraceLand

GraceLand
  • Author(s): Chris Abani
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies and a harsh urban existence. Elvis Oke, a teenage Elvis...

Jagua Nana

Jagua Nana
  • Author(s): Cyprian Ekwensi
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life – with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos:...

My Life As A Chameleon

My Life As A Chameleon
  • Author(s): Diana Anyakwo
  • Location(s): Lagos, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Freedom comes with the courage to be seen 15-year-old Lily has been sent from her home in Lagos, Nigeria, to a new school and a new family in Manchester, England. She thought it would be a chance to reinvent...

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