Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for...
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Author:Blackburn, Lizzie DamilolaSummary: - Author:Asher, Zain E.Summary:
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from...
- Author:Cole, TejuSummary:
An "extraordinary, ambitious" (The Times UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world - from the award-winning author of Open City. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice...
- Author:Cole, TejuSummary:
Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.
- Author:Cole, TejuSummary:
Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad. The book gains its strength as much from its subject matter (contemporary Lagosian life as experienced by a visiting former...
- Author:Obaro, TomiSummary:
Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's...
- Author:Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziSummary:
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.
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Author:Igwe, BenSummary:Undaunted by hardship, a determined widow, Uridiya, arranges a wife of her choice for her western-educated only son. Little does she know that her son, Jamike, had fallen in love and married a foreigner against her wishes and the...
