Spent Lives
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.92
Format: None pages, ebook
The two characters in Ayobami Adebayo's (Nigeria) short story discover that old flames are never co…
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1. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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2. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
By: Lola Shoneyin
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi's Wives,… read more
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3. The Joys of Motherhood
By: Buchi Emecheta
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children -… read more
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4. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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5. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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6. Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and alon… read more
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7. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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8. The Girl with the Louding Voice
By: Abi Daré
4.43
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
All you have are your words.Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: a… read more
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"I draw a breath, comforting myself with her scent of coconut oil and lily flower."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"The wall in the room we shared will remind them that we were here. That we are human. Of value. Important."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"... I feel a free that I didn't feel in long time. And when I smile, it climb from inside my stomach and spread itself on my teeth."-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
"Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about…"-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice
9. Tomorrow I Become a Woman
By: Aiwanose Odafen
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more
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10. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3.95
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more
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11. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
12. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
13. The Mechanics of Yenagoa
By: Michael Afenfia
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of … read more
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14. Dele Weds Destiny
By: Tomi Obaro
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first t… read more
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- romance
- nigeria
15. The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
2.96
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more
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16. An Orchestra of Minorities
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.68
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit o… read more
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"Mais il ignorait encore que rien, jamais, n’appartient pleinement à personne."-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less."-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"Esprits protecteurs de l’humanité, avons-nous vraiment réfléchi aux puissances que déploie la passion chez l’humain ? Avons-nous examiné pourquoi un homme peut traverser un champ de flammes pour atte…"-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"The daily life of lovers often begins to share resemblances, so that, in time, each day becomes indistinguishable from the one that came before it. The lovers carry each other's words in their hearts…"-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
17. Zikora
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
18. Rose and the Burma Sky
By: Rosanna Amaka
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For fans of Yaa Gyasi, Esi Edugyan and James Baldwin - gripping and intimate historical novel of a … read more
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19. Gambit: Newer African Writing
By: Emmanuel Iduma
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN-10: 1938022882 / ISBN-13: 9781938022883. GAMBIT… read more
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20. Spent Lives
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.92
Format: None pages, ebook
The two characters in Ayobami Adebayo's (Nigeria) short story discover that old flames are never co… read more
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21. The Marriage Class - a Novel
By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
4.26
Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition
One Class. Ten Couples. Ten Decisions.Abi and Raymond are engaged to be married and have started ma… read more
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