Book: KINTU Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu is the debut novel of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and it tells the complicated and yet so enthralling tale of Kintu Kidda, Ppookino (governor) of…More
Book: BLACKASS Author: Igoni Barrett Furo Wariboko, the protagonist in Igoni Barrett’s Kafkaesque dark satirical comedy wakes up and discovers that ‘dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong…More
Book: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Author: Warsan Shire ‘I don’t know when love became elusive. What I know is: no one I know has it’. If this…More
Book: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress Author: Ogenna Ojukwu With his debut novel, Ogenna Ojukwu leads the reader through the complicated life of Onyeka; teacher and vice-principal hopeful,…More
Book: Tomorrow Died Yesterday Author: Chimeka Garrick There is always that one book sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust and all sorts of disrespect by being passed over for…More
With an original take on speculative, dystopian, fantastical, magical realism and any other term that stands for ‘knocks the breath out of you’, Lesley Nneka Arimah has spun a collection of short stories in such a spectacular and intelligent manner that will stay with us for a very long time.
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Book: Homegoing Author: Yaa Gyasi With her heart wrenching and ambitious debut, Yaa Gyasi has written a story that unfolds into six generations of the consequences of the actions of…More
Book: Stay With Me Author: Ayobami Adebayo Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel Stay With Me revolves around Yejide and Akin, a young married couple who have remained childless after 4…More
The book Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama was first published in 1997. It is a story of race and inheritance. The story is an attempt to access, to understand…More