Books

Nigerian democracy
14 Books for Anyone Trying to Make Sense of Nigerian Democracy

Afrocritik presents fourteen books that together form a serious reader’s guide to Nigerian democracy; its…

Omenana
“December 2025: Niger Delta Issue” Review: Omenana Magazine’s Call to Arms in the War to Protect the Niger Delta Region

What Omenana has essentially done with this Niger Delta Issue is to ask fiction writers…

The Quiet That Remains
“The Quiet That Remains” Review: Hope Lingers for Damaged Souls in Jude Dibia’s Fourth Novel

The Quiet That Remains is about many things, chief amongst them the concept of changing…

Let Us Conspire and Other Stories
“Let Us Conspire and Other Stories” Investigates Marginal Identities Amidst Loss and Grief

From the experimental to the conventional, with preoccupations at once personal and political, universal and…

The Comedian’s Diary
“The Comedian’s Diary” Review: Obase-Sam Ikoi’s Debut Novel Challenges Traditional Forms of the Novel in Its Portrait of Addiction

The Comedian’s Diary is a sobering portrait of the capability of community in the face…

African Political Fiction
Notable African Political Fiction of the Last Decade (Part II)

Some of these books tackle politics head-on; in others, its marginal effects play in the…

In Our Own Ways
Sisterhood and a Fractured Marriage: A Review of Yejide Kilanko’s “In Our Own Ways”

Although In Our Own Ways is ostensibly about class and a fractured marriage, the enduring…

escapist fiction
20 Notable Escapist African Fiction of the Last Ten Years

What we have here are some notable works of fiction that can transport one into…

Born at the End of the World
Love in a Time of Terror: A Review of Donica Merhazion’s “Born at the End of the World”

Inasmuch as Born at the End of the World is about love, it is also…

Nigerian Literature
The Endless Work of Culture Positioning: The Challenge for Nigerian Literature

We must not only question the failures of our literary space, but we must also…