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July 20, 2025 .
Essays
Measuring Time, winner of the Virginia Library Foundation prize for fiction (2008), follows the lives of two persons (Mamo and LaM...
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June 18, 2022 .
themadhouse, tjbenson
I believe a good book is one (regardless of its genre or setting) you can resonate with through its characters and the writer is a...
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March 3, 2022 .
black, bolubabalola, loveincolour
A collection of short love stories, Love in Colour is what I like to call a genuine reading experience. The book is split into two...
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December 4, 2023 .
africanliterature
I don’t find What Happened to Janet Uzor very hair-raising thrilling, but it has ENOUGH suspense to get you flipping. ...
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October 4, 2023 .
africanliterature
After I read A Girl Is a Body of Water, I knew I had to read all the other books authored by her, and I sure wasn’t disappoi...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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March 22, 2022 .
africanliterature, lagos to london, lolaaworantiekugo
Though the book is set in Lagos and London, it’s a reality most of us can relate to from anywhere in Africa. There is someth...
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December 4, 2023 .
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When Babayo was murdered on a train in Jos, on his way to Lagos with the love of his life by a rival, he found himself as Inuwa in...
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December 4, 2024 .
africanliterature
The raw emotions and ripple effects of the horrendous deeds were palpable throughout the story, making Lightseekers a thought-prov...
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