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What Achebe does in this collection of 16 essays is to explain to the reader, intentionally and clearly, his views on a number of issues,...

What I love about this book is how original it is. And already, starting a book review like this, it feels as though I will have nothing...

It’s a little difficult to write this review because Bomboy is like no other novel I have read. It has elements of the supernatural, the...

Blackass tells the tale of Furo Wariboko, a frustrated young man in the thickets of job-hunting in Nigeria’s tough labour market, who...

Set in colonial Nigeria (Igbo land) the novel tells the story of Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu (a god) in the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu...

What can I say about Junot Diaz? Diaz is a captor. This Is How You Lose Her is a collection of 9 short stories, in which he tells the...

This novel takes a look at Nigeria's volatile political atmosphere (and the collateral damage it has incurred on family units), feminism...

Born A Crime is absolutely brilliant. Noah is not just funny on stage or in front of a camera; I found myself laughing out loud in many...