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Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the internationally bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos…
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The Parlour Wife
Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war.
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Lagos, 1939
With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced … -
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him.
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Stay with Me
This celebrated, unforgettable first novel, shortlisted for the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction and set in Nigeria, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage-…
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, …
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Tomorrow I Become a Woman
What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then again, who was I to speak of such things
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Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
The second novel about a preacher's daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving herself and her body.
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Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. E… -
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The Mechanics of Yenagoa
Ebinimi, star 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 in love triangles;…
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Nigerian Men Will Stain Your White
The novella revolves around the life of Efua Johnson, a woman of Ghanaian descent living in Lagos with her Nigerian husband. She faces an immense dislike from her mother-in-law who is not in support o…
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His Only Wife
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.”
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Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending m…