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May 30, 2025

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura by Tierno Monénembo, Reviewed: Mystery Guinean Girl on the Run, from Conakry to Paris

In the 78-year-old Guinean author’s 14th novel, translated by Ryan Chamberlain, names are history and memory is survival.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

March 25, 2025

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigerian edition cover by Narrative Landscape Press - The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2025: Presented by Open Country Mag

April 19, 2024

This Motherless Land by Nikki May, Reviewed: A Mixed-Race Woman Seeks Belonging

Entertaining and heart-wrenching, Nikki May’s sophomore novel is most fun when she draws parallels between Nigeria and England, with punchily rendered bits of cultural insight.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Nikki May - This Motherless Land

June 10, 2023

When We Were Fireflies, Reviewed: Memory and the Multitudes of Living

The magical realist delights of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s third novel.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim - When We Were Fireflies

March 16, 2023

I Am Still with You by Emmanuel Iduma, Reviewed: Haunting Histories

In the private space of family and the public space of Biafra, a significant new memoir asks questions of loss and longing. But will the answers be enough?
Echezonachukwu Nduka
Emmanuel Iduma - I Am Still with You

January 13, 2023

Imagination’s Many Rooms by Amatoritsero Ede, Reviewed—Punchy Essays on Cultural Politics

There is a sharp memory laced with humor here, and an in-depth understanding of the issues at play.
Echezonachukwu Nduka
Amatoritsero Ede - Imagination's Many Rooms

September 12, 2022

My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando Review—Family, Race, & a Nigerian Son’s Quest

“Without these men standing in for his father, he would have continued feeling ‘like I missed something only he could give me.’ This is a rich tapestry of the power of relationships in molding a precocious, restless kid who is black.”
Ikhide R. Ikheloa
My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando

June 14, 2022

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu Review—A Momentous Debut of Gay Love and Human Fullness

“This book is lush with evocative passages. So real are the characters, you could almost reach out and touch them.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

May 30, 2025

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura by Tierno Monénembo, Reviewed: Mystery Guinean Girl on the Run, from Conakry to Paris

In the 78-year-old Guinean author’s 14th novel, translated by Ryan Chamberlain, names are history and memory is survival.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

March 25, 2025

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigerian edition cover by Narrative Landscape Press - The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2025: Presented by Open Country Mag

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 19, 2024

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

This Motherless Land by Nikki May, Reviewed: A Mixed-Race Woman Seeks Belonging

Entertaining and heart-wrenching, Nikki May’s sophomore novel is most fun when she draws parallels between Nigeria and England, with punchily rendered bits of cultural insight.
Paula Willie-Okafor

June 10, 2023

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim - When We Were Fireflies

When We Were Fireflies, Reviewed: Memory and the Multitudes of Living

The magical realist delights of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s third novel.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

March 16, 2023

Emmanuel Iduma - I Am Still with You

I Am Still with You by Emmanuel Iduma, Reviewed: Haunting Histories

In the private space of family and the public space of Biafra, a significant new memoir asks questions of loss and longing. But will the answers be enough?
Echezonachukwu Nduka

January 13, 2023

Amatoritsero Ede - Imagination's Many Rooms

Imagination’s Many Rooms by Amatoritsero Ede, Reviewed—Punchy Essays on Cultural Politics

There is a sharp memory laced with humor here, and an in-depth understanding of the issues at play.
Echezonachukwu Nduka

September 12, 2022

My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando

My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando Review—Family, Race, & a Nigerian Son’s Quest

“Without these men standing in for his father, he would have continued feeling ‘like I missed something only he could give me.’ This is a rich tapestry of the power of relationships in molding a precocious, restless kid who is black.”
Ikhide R. Ikheloa

June 14, 2022

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu Review—A Momentous Debut of Gay Love and Human Fullness

“This book is lush with evocative passages. So real are the characters, you could almost reach out and touch them.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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