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The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother

A Must-Read Poetic Journey of One Woman Finding Her Strength.

The club, which prides itself in championing women's empowerment and inclusion, broke away from its usual tradition.

A young man learns how to love in a hostile world in this debut from Nigeria

Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s debut novel opens in 2006, when Anozie, a shopkeeper in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria, brings an adolescent boy in to help. Something about the new assistant catches the attention of Anozie’s teenage son, Obiefuna; soon after, Anozie sees the two boys exchange a simmering glance. He immediately grasps its significance. After beating Obiefuna, Anozie sends him away to boarding school.

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos.

Retracing the footsteps of history and foraging museums in the land of cows, diamonds and wandering elephants.

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

Contemporary Chinese literature, from the 1980s to the present, has been highly diverse in its manifestations.

As a young Black woman, racism made me fearful and angry. Then I met my white boyfriend and things got … complicated