Books

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…

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…