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7 Books to Help You End Your Reading Year on a High

Ìjàpá O and Peace Yetunde Onafuye·December 1, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books that will help you end your reading year on a high. These books will help you hit your 2024 reading goals while introducing you to new and captivating stories. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Read Something African Reading

7 Memoirs Worth Reading Cover to Cover

Ìjàpá O·November 24, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of memoirs worth reading cover to cover. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

The Interior and Emotional Connections of African Poetry

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto·November 17, 2024

The latest African Poetry Book Fund chapbook box set, Kumi, contains ten chapbooks by nine African poets. This collection rousingly reveals the inescapable realities of human existence through contemporary African poetry. Read More...

Nigeria October/November 2024 Reading

7 Books Funnier Than a Front-Row Seat at a Comedy Show

Ìjàpá O·November 14, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books that are funnier than a front-row seat at a comedy show. From the story of the childhood of one of Africa’s foremost comedians to a biting satire about the Nigerian society, these books will certainly make your belly rumble with laughter. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

7 Books That Will Make You the Smart Friend

Ìjàpá O·November 10, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that will make you the smart friend. From an examination of the evolution of identity politics to an account of the political systems that determine life and death, these books will make you the go-to person for intelligent conversations within your friend group. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

7 Books That Will Connect You to Your Inner Child

Ìjàpá O·November 3, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that will connect you to your inner child. These books will take you back to your childhood, reminding you just how far you have come in how you view the world. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

7 Books That Bring Elderly Characters to Life

Ìjàpá O·October 27, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that bring elderly characters to life. Whether featuring a closeted grandpa in the UK or a sexually liberated seventy-five-year-old Nigerian woman in San Francisco, the books on this list prove that great fiction can centre around elderly characters too! Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

The True Cost of Female Agency

Edwin Okolo·October 20, 2024

In her debut collection, Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda challenges our assumptions about the complexities of female relationships, heightening the outcomes by casting them in, and sometimes against, a city that is both magnificent and macabre. Read More...

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7 Books That Are Time Machines in Disguise

Ìjàpá O·October 17, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that are time machines in disguise. These books will take you from the Nigerian civil war era to pre-apartheid South Africa, and even many centuries back to the expedition that brought the first African to the Americas. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

7 Books That Will Help You Survive the Boredom of Lagos Traffic

Ìjàpá O·October 13, 2024

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that will help you survive the boredom of Lagos traffic. Whether a short story collection or a science fiction novella, the books on this list have intriguing plot structures that will immerse you into their worlds, transporting you far from the frustrating stop-and-go of Lagos traffic. Read More...

October/November 2024 Read Something African Reading

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