A heartwarming tale about five strangers who meet and become unlikely allies to try to survive life in Lagos.
Tag: African literature
Southbank Centre to host a 60th anniversary reading of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
A special 60th anniversary reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is being hosted by @southbankcentre on 15 April.
Yes we have bookshops, but access is another story…
Our First Lady of Clap Backs, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, had a very clear response when a French journalist asked her if there where any bookstores in Nigeria.
Americanah
I actually read this novel earlier this summer and admittedly I am very late the review but it such was a long awaited read that it would be a bit of a disservice not to review it especially as it was for me one of several reading highlights of 2014. Readers expecting another multi-layered epic novel like Half of … Continue reading Americanah