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Title: The Mountains Sing Author: Nguyen Phan Que Mai Published By: Oneworld Publications Release Date: 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Hardback Length: 339 pages Synopsis With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần [...]
Title: The Death of Vivek Oji Author: Akwaeke Emezi Published By: Kachifo Limited under its Farafina Imprint Release Date: 2020 Genre: Fiction, Coming-of-age Format: Paperback Length: 263 pages Synopsis They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son’s [...]
Title: The Gifts of Imperfection Author: Brené Brown Published By: Penguin Random House, UK Release Date: 2010, 2020 Genre: Non-fiction, self-help Format: Paperback Length: 167 pages Synopsis New York Times best-selling author and professor Brené Brown offers a powerful and inspiring book that explores how to cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection to embrace your [...]
It's been a week and a day, but on the 20th of October, 2020, I fought with God. It was not our first fight. Over the course of my life and as with every other kind of relationship I have, we had had fights. I would tell him how mad I was with him and [...]
Title: Memoirs of a Lazy Korfa Author: Tunmise Usikalu Published By: Sophos Books Ltd. Release Date: 2020 Genre: Non-fiction, Genre Format: Paperback Length: 106 pages Synopsis “Though this is only the first day of camp, as at 2:30pm or there about, I am already number 1,246! As if that’s not bad enough, we get matched [...]
I’m super excited about creating this tag because I am passionate about Nigerian literature and love what Nigerian writers bring to the world! Nigerian writers are a real treasure to Nigeria and all over and should be appreciated every moment! I searched on the internet for any Nigerian Writers' Tag I could find but could [...]
Title: The Girl With The Louding Voice Author: Abi Dare Published By: Sceptre, an Imprint of Holder & Stroughton Release Date: 2020 Genre: Coming-of-age, Fiction, Bildungsroman Format: Paperback Length: 312 pages Synopsis Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian Girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is [...]
Title: Tomorrow Died Yesterday Author: Chimeka Garricks Published By: Paperworth Books Limited Release Date: 2010 Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback Length: 292 pages Synopsis It’s 2004 Port Harcourt at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry and four lives are reconnected. Done (aka Doughboy) the career militant [...]
Title: I’m Telling The Truth But I’m Lying Author: Bassey Ikpi Published By: Harper Perennial Release Date: 2019 Genre: Memoir, Non-fiction Format: Paperback Length: 248 pages Synopsis In this remarkable memoir-in-essays, Basset Ikpi explores her life-as a Nigerian American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of [...]
Title: The Mechanics of Yenagoa Author: Michael Afenfia Published By: Masobe Books Release Date: June 2020 Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback Length: 303 pages Synopsis Ebinimi, are mechanic of Kalakala street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of trouble. Some of his troubles are self-inflicted : like his recurring entanglements [...]
