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Post books set in Nigeria here.

Books sey in Nigeria:


Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: A Novel by Lola Shoneyin
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
The Slave Girl: A Novel by Buchi Emecheta
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
The Family by Buchi Emecheta
Double Yoke by Buchi Emecheta
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson
Graceland by Chris Abani
Swallow by Sefi Atta
The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
Song for Night by Chris Abani
Efuru by Flora Nwapa
The Palm-Wine Drunkard by Amos Tutuola
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Measuring Time: A Novel by Helon Habila
Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri
News from Home: Short Stories by Sefi Atta
Oil on Water: A Novel by Helon Habila
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
Waiting For an Angel by Helon Habila
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
The Island of Eternal Love by Daina Chaviano
Voice of America by E.C. Osondu
Lemonas Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Forest of Flowers by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (1st book in a series)
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe
The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe
Open City by Teju Cole
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Cross Country by James Patterson
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano (first part of book)
The Concubine by Elechi Amadi
by In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey by Ken Wiwa
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays by Chinua Achebe
The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
The Shadow of a Smile by Kachi A. Ozumba
Isara: A Voyage Around Essay by Wole Soyinka
Kalakuta Republic by Chris Abani
The No. 1 Car Spotter by Atinuke
A Time For New Dreams by Ben Okri
Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri
Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani
This Is Lagos and Other Stories by Flora Nwapa
Wives at War and Other Stories by Flora Nwapa
Women Are Different by Flora Nwapa
Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford
Yoruba Folktales by Amos Tutuola
Lagos Heat by Olatoun Williams
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Kicking Tongues by Karen King-Aribisala
Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
The Victims by Isidore Okpewho
Hello Moto by Nnedi Okorafor
Onaedo - The Blacksmith's Daughter by Ngozi Achebe
Onitsha by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Imagine This by Sade Adeniran
The Hangman's Game by Karen King-Aribisala
The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi
To Saint Patrick by Eghosa Imasuen
The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories by Funso Aiyejina
Our Wife and Other Stories by Karen King-Arbisala
Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
Tides! by Isidore Okpewho
Call Me by My Rightful Name by Isidore Okpewho
Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe

You Must Set Forth at Dawn by Wole Soyinka

I'd debate Little Bee being here - IIRC, the first chapter and the last chapter were in Nigeria - the rest was in the UK - but with a nigerian character

Dee wrote: "I'd debate Little Bee being here - IIRC, the first chapter and the last chapter were in Nigeria - the rest was in the UK - but with a nigerian character"

That's good to know. Sometimes it is so hard to know just how much of a book is set in a particular country until after you've read it. Thanks so much for the input.

I have started a Listopia list of books set in Nigeria here: Books Set in Nigeria. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!

More books set in Nigeria:


Treachery in the Yard: A Nigerian Thriller by Adimchinma Ibe
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe (Mostly set in Belgium)
Blood Oil by James Phelan
Blood Contract by Biola Olatunde
The Nigerian Tragedy by Aderonke B. Moyinlorun
Flight for Life: An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City by Rudolf Pell Gaudio
My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence by Peter Cunliffe-Jones
My Vision of Nigeria; My Vision of Nigeria by Aminu Tijjani
Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe
A Heart To Mend by Myne Whitman
ADA's Daughter by Jacqueline Maduneme
Waking in Nigeria by C. L. Dahl
An African Affair: A Novel by Nina Darnton
Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography by Marita Golden
The Anger of Unfulfillment: Three Plays Out of Nigeria by Jekwu Ozoemene
Night Studies: Stories of a Life in a West African Village by Benjamin Madison

The Death Of The Ancient King by Laurent Gaudé (aka From the Death of King Tsongor

The Tale of the Cow Tail & Other Stories from the African Diaspora by Lanre Ogundimu

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

Love Is Power, or Something Like That: Stories by A. Igoni Barrett

Daughters Who Walk This Path by Yejide Kilanko

May I add my books?
I am a Goodreads author who lives in Nigeria, and I have published three books set in Nigeria on Amazon Kindle.

Always Yours by Somi Ekhasomhi - Romance

Hidden Currents by Somi Ekhasomhi - Romance

Jungle Justice by Somi Ekhasomhi - Short Story

Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa

not a book - just this just popped up in my news - http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013... - probably one of the more famous nigerian authors died

Dee wrote: "not a book - just this just popped up in my news - http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013... - probably one of the more famous nigerian authors died"

Wow, very sad. He was a great writer. I loved Things Fall Apart. I never knew that he was paralyzed in a car accident, either.

Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Thread of Gold Beads by Nike Campbell-Fatoki (also set in Benin)

wow. just what I was looking for thank you so much. now I can continue my Nigeria a thon.

This House Is Not for Sale by E.C. Osondu

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Under the Udala Trees

And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile

Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John

Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo

Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Bitter Leaf by Chioma Okereke

The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo

Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett.

The Face: Cartography of the Void by Chris Abani.

Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems by Gabriel Okara

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

More books set in Nigeria:


419 by Will Ferguson
An Adventure to Juju Island by Gabriel Okara
The Adventures Of Souza: The Village Lad by Kola Onadipe
An African Elegy by Ben Okri
An African Popular Literature: A Study of Onitsha Market Pamphlets
African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty by Amos Tutuola
Ajapa the Tortoise: A Book of Nigerian Folk Tales by Margaret Baumann
All for Oil by J.P. Clark
America, Their America by John Pepper Clark
The Anonymity of Sacrifice by I.N.C. Aniebo
Aringindin and the Nightwatchmen by Femi Osofisan
Arrest My Son by Ogali A. Ogali
Ash and Bones by Mike Thomas (1st book in DC Will MacReady series)
Babes in the Jungle: A Year of Village Life in the Niger Delta by David Clark
Basi and Company by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Beautiful Feathers by Cyprian Ekwensi
Bingo's Run by James A. Levine
Black Sparkle Romance by Amara Nicole Okolo
Blackbird by Jude Dibia
Blade Among the Boys by Onuora Nzekwu
Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology by Isidore Okpewho
The Boy Slave by Kola Onadipe
Brick Brannigan is Knee-Deep in Peril! by Eric Bonkowski (1st book in series)
Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele-Thomas
Burning Grass by Cyprian Ekwensi

More books set in Nigeria:


Can You Imagine? by Adeife Adeniran
The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
Chasing Butterflies by Yejide Kilanko
The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria by Helon Habila
Chief The Honourable Minister by T.M. Aluko
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems by Chinua Achebe
Circles of Love: Poems by Ifi Amadiume
Collected Plays by Wole Soyinka (1st of 2 volumes)
Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe
Come Thunder by Ossie Onuora Enekwe
Conduct Unbecoming by T.M. Aluko
Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor
Contemporary African Plays by Wole Soyinka
A Cup of Verse by Emmanuel Osondu
A Dancer of Fortune by John Okechukwu Munonye
Danda by Nkem Nwankwo
Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
Daphne's Lot by Chris Abani
Daughters of Bappa Avenue by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
The Daylight Pestilence by Ibe Darlington Ifeanyi
Dear Beneficiary by Janet Kelly
Dear Dr. Ngugi by Sam Okello
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Death Catches the Hunter by Biyi Bandele-Thomas
A Demon in Every Woman by Patience Onyinye Nwokolo
Destination Biafra by Buchi Emecheta
Diaries of a Dead African by Chuma Nwokolo Jr.
A Different Sun by Elaine Neil Orr
The Drummer Boy by Cyprian Ekwensi
Drums That Dance in the Dark by Nduka Onwuegbute
During a Dry Season by Portia Tewogbade

Girl by Edna O'Brien

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Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde.

Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel by Elenore Smith Bowen.

Lagos: Supernatural City : Tales of Survival, Spirituality and the Struggle for Power in Africa’s Biggest Metropolis by Tim Cocks.

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul.

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Chapter on Nigeria, sugar industry based, plus infrastructure and general observations. 1970s- 80s.

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