Nigeria

Books in this genre are set in or about Nigeria.

Cursed Daughters
Dream Count
Death of the Author
This Motherless Land
Notes on Grief
And So I Roar
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
Little Rot
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
The Visit (Black Stars, #1)
Wahala
Sankofa
Blessings
Someday, Maybe
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Purple Hibiscus
We Should All Be Feminists
Stay with Me
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Thing Around Your Neck
Little Bee
The Fishermen
Freshwater
Under the Udala Trees
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
549 books — 268 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 56 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke EmeziWelcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
Igbo Authors
39 books — 4 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 voters


Emi Iyalla
The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.
Emi Iyalla

John Rachel
The spring breeze felt like the warm breath of a child on Kumiko’s face. It played delicately with her hair like tiny fingers, and made the trees whisper a breathless song.
John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

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