Finished reading: #AManOfThePeople by #ChinuaAchebe

5.31.26 → 6.4.26

Couldn’t tell if I was reading about a fictional country or the US right now.

#NigerianLiterature
#PostColonialLiterature
#booksky

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝑷𝒕. 2: 𝑺𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒂'𝒔 𝑻𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓 & 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒐 -

Why have so few read Soyinka? And can we find hope through his cynical dramas?

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#podcast #literature #books #booksky #thetrialsofbrotherjero #drama #nigerianliterature

Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Comes to the Big Screen
#NigerianLiterature #NovelToScreen #BookSky
www.writingafrica.com/lola-shoneyi...

Here's your daily dose of climate fiction! This one's from #Nigeria! 🇳🇬

To Rescue a Self. By Arekpitan Ikhenaode.

At the Green Nigeria Youths Fellowship, Eketi tries to find her voice.

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#NigerianLiterature #NaijaLit #NigerianWriters #AfricaReads

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿" 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗻𝗲𝗱𝗶 𝗢𝗸𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿 -

I've been drawn to Okorafor's work since "Noor," and now I'm equally compelled by her larger vision/project for Nigerian literature and Africanfuturism. And now with a title like this? Ready!

#books #tbr #nigerianliterature #booksky

2025 Reading Challenge: 12/50
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Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3) by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Nene Nwoko
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Review on StoryGraph @ jmariedewitt
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#amreading #book #bookstagram #audiobook #thensibidiscripts #yalit #nigerianliterature

‘The Edge of Water’ by Olufunke Grace Bankole @ogracebankole.bsky.social, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social

#fiction #realisticfiction #literaturecommunity #literatureaboutplace #nigerianliterature #nigerianamericanliterature #familyliterature #feministlit #feministliterature

Preorder now! Explores how contemporary Nigerian theatre, literature, film, music and digital platforms confront the status quo. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/bddu55b8 #unizikofficial #NigerianLiterature #NigerianCinema #Nollywood #AfricanLiterature #AfricanStudies #CCSU

In ‚Cursed Daughters“, Oyinkan Braithwaite traces a haunting family legacy across generations in Lagos. Fritz Freithoff on myth, memory, and self-empowerment in a striking novel...
#booksky #NigerianLiterature #AfricanLit #BookReview #Lagos #Reading #nigeria
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗣𝗲𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗸𝘄𝗮𝗲𝗸𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝘇𝗶 -

What utopia? And underneath our complacency, as ever, are monsters we refuse to see or name.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #akwaekeemezi #pet #NigerianLiterature #booksky

My debut novel is out. The City He Never Returned To spans sixty years and four generations of a Nigerian family, from 1965 Lagos through the civil war to a visionary future. Inspired by my father's ledger, which he carried through those years.

akajiofo.com
#NigerianLiterature #HistoricalFiction

JOLLOF RICE AND OTHER REVOLUTIONS by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi (@omololathewriter.bsky.social) Stories of the Nigerian diaspora and the connections between homeland and identity. 

#NigerianLiterature #DiasporaStories

Coming Soon! This is a collection of fresh perspectives and opinions on the creative interventions on the Nigerian literary and entertainment space. See ➡️ tinyurl.com/y56h5s2j #AlexChinwubaAsigbo #GloriaEmeagwali #NigerianLiterature #AfricanLiterature #NigerianEntertainment #YouthVoices #AnthemPress

Books 26 & 27 of 2025: In Such Tremendous Heat, by Kehinde Fadipe; It Takes So Much to Be Nothing, by Jack Malik. #yishreads #britishliterature #nigerianliterature #singlit #malaysianliterature

Books 16-19 of 2025: The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola; Burn After Dawn, by Chim Sher Ting; Interrogation Records, by Jeddie Sophronius; Scenes of the Father, by Amir Hafizi & Chee. #yishreads #nigerianliterature #singlit #indonesianliterature #malaysianliterature