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Ever Obi titled his first novel Men Don’t Die. His second novel, Some Angels Don’t See God, continues in this pattern of using idioms as titles which, on the surface, sounds like a denial of established facts.
Some Angels Don’t See God consists of two parts and 20 chapters, set in the key cities of Aba, Nnewi, Festac, Surulere, and Yaba, and centres on the lives of its two main characters, Neta and Peter.
The Advisory Board for the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature Prize’s has released the Longlist of 11 titles, setting the stage for an epic battle for the prestigious literary prize.
In the first leg of his Nigerian book tour, Uwem Akpan, author of the critically acclaimed novel, New York, My Village, captivated an audience at Roving Heights Bookstore in Lagos with a powerful reading and conversation that revisited the harrowing experiences of Niger Delta minorities during the Nigerian Civil War.
Ever Obi is a fiction writer and business executive based in the Netherlands. His debut, Men Don’t Die, was published in 2019, exploring themes of death
To the author of New York, My Village, Uwen Akpan, the stories of Nigerian Civil war between 1967 and 1970 is incomplete without the narratives and travails of minorities.
From his escape from a pro-Biafra Igbo assault in an Atlanta restaurant to his meeting with those who shed tears and could not continue with giving him stories of their experiences despite the long years that had passed.
IN Ibadan last Saturday, July 5, 2025 Nigeria-America based writer who teaches creative writing at the University of Florida in Gainesville, engaged a largely young audience….
WRITING is not an innocent act. This much Uwem Akpan told his audience at his Ibadan reading on Saturday, July 5, 2025 when he said ‘Biafra made a mistake to
And it hits differently. For those of my readers with my mobile phone number, this is no news. Because it was up on my status as soon as I received the copies that fateful day.
If you understand the writer and speaker reference above, then—like me—you’re old. LOL. Or, unlike me, you’re older. Hint: The Girl Is Mine by Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney.
News of the death of the acclaimed writer and cultural theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on May 28, 2025 broke to universal shock and much sorrowing. He was old enough, at age 87, but he was so beloved no one warmed to the idea of not having him around for as long as possible—forever, if we could get away with it.
“So, you’re the writer,” she says in a tone of casual wonder, but perhaps as an indication that the information she has had to go by may be dodgy. “When Robin mentioned the black resident, I thought of another person, although I haven’t spoken to that person, either.”
This novel does more than just re-imagine Ajayi’s life as a boy in Osogun and as an adult away from and back home, it also re-interprets Dandeson’s life. Dandeson was Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s son.