Books

While the World Slept
“While the World Slept” Review: A Tender, Uneven Portrait of Gay Life in Nigeria

It is hardly possible to cross the bridges of the stories in While the World…

War Girls
“War Girls” Review: Tochi Onyebuchi Reimagines the Nigerian Civil War Through Science Fiction

With War Girls, Onyebuchi has crafted not merely a conventional dystopian war epic, but an…

environmental novels
The Land Remembers: 20 African Environmental Novels of the Last Decade

The environmental realities of Africa have been the subject of literary works from inception. Some…

82nd Division
Of Men Whose Poems Have Become Ours: A Review of D. M. Aderibigbe’s “82nd Division”

With 82nd Division, Aderibigbe brings the reader to poems that are simultaneously historical and modern;…

Someone Should Hold Farida
The North Is Retelling Its Story: A Review of Flame Tree’s “Someone Should Hold Farida”

Someone Should Hold Farida pulses with characters who are aplomb, assured of their place in…

One Leg on Earth
Pemi Aguda’s “One Leg On Earth” Mythologises the Strangeness of Lagos and Water

Pemi Aguda’s One Leg on Earth is the story of the strange pull of a…

Jude Dibia
In Conversation: Jude Dibia Talks “The Quiet That Remains”, Love, and the Lives Literature Refuses to Overlook

“I’ve always believed literature can enlarge our capacity for empathy. A novel allows us to…

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…