Book Reviews
Love, Loneliness, and the Chaos of Modern Womanhood: On Damilare Kuku’s Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad
In Damilare Kuku’s Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad, love is a battlefield fought in wigs, WhatsApp messages,
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Becoming in Full: Aiwanose Odafen’s Fearless Debut
In Tomorrow I Become a Woman, Aiwanose Odafen’s luminous debut novel, the act of “becoming” is less a rite of
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Swallowed by the System: Sefi Atta’s Stark Portrait of 1980s Nigeria
In Swallow, Nigerian novelist Sefi Atta takes us back to 1980s Lagos, not with nostalgia, but with the steady gaze
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Rereading Ama Ata Aidoo: The Wisdom and Fire of No Sweetness Here
I first read No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo in 2005, tucked into a corner of
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Lineages of Silence and Speech: On Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones
In Ancestor Stones, Aminatta Forna constructs a memory palace from the scattered fragments of West African womanhood, opening its doors
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Bisa Adjapon’s Daughter in Exile: A Story of Borders, Belonging, and the Cost of Freedom
What happens when home turns its back on you, and the place you run to barely lets you breathe? Bisa
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The Fragile Work of Belated Love: On Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief
Grief is never punctual. It arrives late, sometimes decades after the wound has been made, and it lingers longer than
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