Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical collection that takes a searing look at how different forms of power are abused, negotiated and performed both in the private and public realm.Through attempting to satirise those who abuse privilege or power, it recognises that power can be found everywhere: in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes. From the exploration of religious hypocrisy in How To Worship The Nigerian God, to A Letter to My Future Kidnapper which tackles t...

On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy that threatens to destroy the community from within.On Ajayi Crowther Street peels back the curtains on the lives of Pastor Akpoborie and his family, to reveal a tumultuous world full of desires, secrets and lies. His only son, ...

"A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism." — O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask PrizeA Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for LiteratureNominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardAn Indies Introduce SelectionAn Amazon Best Book of the Mon...

Dantala vit dans la rue avec les voyous de Bayan Layi, fume la wee-wee sous le baobab, fait le coup de poing pour le Petit Parti. Souvent, les bagarres tournent mal mais, comme on dit, tout ce qui arrive est la volonté d'Allah. Un soir d'émeutes, pris en chasse par la police, il doit s'enfuir.Sans famille, il trouve refuge à Sokoto auprès d'un imam salafiste. Il apprend l'anglais avec son ami Jibril, tombe amoureux, psalmodie l'appel à la prière, lit tout ce qu'il ...

Dantala, der Protagonist des Romans, lebt mit anderen Kindern und Jugendlichen auf den Straßen von Bayan Layi, einer Kleinstadt im Norden Nigerias. Die Koranschule, auf die sein Vater ihn geschickt hat, hat er verlassen, um sich stattdessen einer Gang anzuschließen. Er stiehlt, um zu essen und raucht Gras. Nachdem er und andere Straßenkinder im Zuge eines Wahlkampfs beauftragt werden, die Zentrale der oppositionellen Partei in Brand zu stecken und dieses Unterfangen desaströs schiefgeht, m...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa.This creativ...

In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to theNigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how poweris performed, negotiated and abused in private and in public; in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes.From the exploration of religious hypocrisy to inequality in matters of the heart, the collection is a jab at Nigeriansoc...

From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines.In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. When their attempt to burn down the opposition's...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa.This collect...

Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015.

What do you get when dare-devil jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria’s formation begins much earlier, in 1804 when the jihadistslaunched their attack on countries along the Niger river. What unfolds is a ...

Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Say You’re One of Them.From a suspiciously cheap Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins and outs of the publishing industry from its incandescentepicenter. While his sophisticated colleagues m...