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An introduction to classic Nigerian home cooking featuring 100 delicious recipes by food explorer, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian Native Ozoz Sokoh.

African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria.

Chimeka Garricks in his extraordinary debut novel has written a frank and moving story about the realities of contemporary Nigeria.

Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a ''creepy crawly imagination'', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.

A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends

Diaries of a Dead African is a merciless comedy that explores the life-threatening situations of three protagonists

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

In her debut novel VAGABONDS! Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption and oppression.

Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.

The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.

Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic.

A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home.

With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience.