What happens when you go to bed a black man and wake up white? That's the question A. Igoni Barrett's novel Black Ass answers with a blend of sharp humor and keen intelligence.
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She Called Me Woman is a portrait of 25 queer Nigerian women. Their anonymised, first-person accounts range from family dynamics to childhood memories to first sexual encounters. With the exception of two narrators, the women reflect on what it’s like living as a queer person in Nigeria.
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Twenty have been confirmed dead after a residential building housing a school collapsed Wednesday morning in Lagos. Majority of the causalities were children.
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Transcendent and sober, Freshwater examines the imbalances between the spirit and flesh and presents the battles waged in the unseen world over the corporeal. It dares to question the conundrum of humans as spirits encased in flesh—or flesh embodying sprits, depending on one’s convictions.
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The second installment of Leye Adenle’s Amaka Thrillers series follows the lawyer protagonist as she tracks down the son-in-law of an ultra-powerful political party leader for his deadly assault of a prostitute. Political drama, shambolic elections and questionable police tactics are laid bare, making for a riveting read from the first page to the very end.
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Nigeria has a history of artistes using creative methods to question power. Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti notoriously lampooned the military government in his music. Still, for many of Nigeria’s satirists, criticising those in power also comes with more indirect difficulties today.
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Ama Ata Aidoo’s debut novel testifies to Africa’s problems with relation to Western interference and the predicament in which the continent finds itself today. Through personal observations and conversations, Sissie, the Ghanaian protagonist, delivers a sarcastic and humorous discourse on a myriad of issues ranging from the borrowed Victorian idea of billing strong, outspoken women as unladylike to white saviour-ism.
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The idea of starting Cassava Republic, a Nigerian publishing firm dedicated to African literature, came to Bakare-Yusuf when she traveled to Nigeria as a visiting academic from the UK. She was shocked by the narrow range of literature in the bookshops and the non-existent libraries in the homes she visited.
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With general elections less than a month away, Nigeria held a much-awaited presidential debate on 19 January. Voters around the country tuned in for two hours on Saturday evening to hear what their next president had to say about governing Africa’s most populous nation.
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