Nigerian Women Writers and Fiction
Explore the best fiction books by Nigerian women writers. Discover compelling stories, powerful narratives, and acclaimed authors shaping contemporary literature.
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A Heart to Mend
by Myne Whitman
SHE HAS AN OPEN FUTURE Gladys moves to live with an estranged aunt in Lagos and to continue her search for a job. Before long she lands the job of her dreams with the foremost oil company in the city and makes several new friends. She also gradually resolves the mystery of why her aunt previously cut all ties with their family. But the best part about her new life is meeting Edward Bestman. HE HAS A CLOSED PAST Edward is good-looking, super rich but emotionally scarred. Gladys gets him to see that she loves him and that together they can surmount all their differences. However, when they return from a romantic trip abroad, they find that some unnamed people are about to take over his business empire. Edward's past has come back to haunt both of them as Gladys is enmeshed in the loss of several million shares of the Bestman Group. AND HE WILL PAY...WITH HIS HEART Who are the people close to Edward who want to betray him and destroy his happiness with Gladys? Will Edward overcome his fear of love and commitment and put his trust in Gladys?
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The Mrs Club
by Ekene Onu
Smart, sexy and successful; These three Nigerian American girls have everything going for them, so why do they feel something is missing? The Mrs Club is a compulsive and entertaining read. You won't be able to put the book down as you drop into the funny and drama filled lives of these three friends!
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
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Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from their world and, in time, give rise to devotion and defiance that reveal themselves in profound and unexpected ways. This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.
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The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a dazzling story collection filled with "indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart" (USA Today). In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
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The Joys of Motherhood
by Buchi Emecheta
A rich, multilayered work of fiction, full of drama and written with deceptive simplicity.--Essence
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Second-class Citizen
by Buchi Emecheta
Tells the story of Adah, a Nigerian woman who moves to Great Britain with her husband and the struggles she goes through being black in a white society and a woman in a patriarchal culture.
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Slave Girl
by Buchi Emecheta
"Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."—Chicago Tribune The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate family that clings together under the unbending will of their master. As Ogbanje Ojebeta becomes a woman and discovers her need for home and family, and for freedom and identity, she realizes that she must ultimately choose her own destiny.
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Kehinde
by Buchi Emecheta
The problems of African expatriates in England. Albert and Kehinde Okolo have lived in London for 18 years. When Albert announces they are returning to Nigeria, Kehinde opposes him because Nigeria is a foreign country to their children. It is the start of a marriage crisis.
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The Family
by Buchi Emecheta
A Jamaican girl joins her parents in London at age eleven and makes formidable adjustments and choices to overcome the limitations of her family life.
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The Bride Price
by Buchi Emecheta
Aku-nna, a young Nigerian woman, must fight a sexist society in order to be with her true love, Chike.
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Under the Mango Tree
by Mabel Segun
Under the mango tree Books 1 and 2 present a stimulating new course in reading and studying poetry at primary level.
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Zahrah the Windseeker
by Nnedi Okorafor
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
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The Only Way Is Up
by Folake Taylor
This book features the author's experiences and views on pertinent life issues as an immigrant to the United States. The objective is to empower women though the greater part is of relevance to a general audience. The book provides insight and solutions for a variety of common issues in our society including issues with identity, weight, health, nutrition, finding a mate, relationships in general and gender roles. It also gives insight into borrowing from other cultures.
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Onaedo -The Blacksmith's Daughter
by Ngozi Achebe
An introduction to an African world that will haunt and surprise and an exquisite story told from a point of view that is rarely heard. This is a tale of two women separated by four hundred years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. Then there is Onaedo a young woman from that era who found herself in the middle of events that were set in motion in a country far away from her small town in Igboland in West Africa. This is a coming of age novel set in a terrifying age - the age of Portuguese discovery.
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Never Again
by Flora Nwapa
A novel depicting Biafran women and their importance in sustaining the society Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Idu
by Flora Nwapa
The novel is set in a small Nigerian Community. Idu finally gives birth to a fine boy.
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Love, Motherhood and the African Heritage
by Femi Nzegwu
Forty years after the restoration of independence in Africa following decades of European conquest and occupation of the continent, there has been little positive impact on the quality of life of most Africans in virtually every sphere of social, political, economic or spiritual existence. During the period, African governments have failed to establish effective socio-economic systems to counter the deleterious consequences of the occupation. One such consequence has been the impact on women, who, prior to the occupation, played a central role in the life of their societies. The aftermath of European hegemony on the African scene has been the displacement/marginalisation of the power, position, participation and contribution of African women in the social ordering and overall advancement of their society. Unfortunately, African governments, through their policies, have ensured that this crippling dis-equilibrium in society has become further entrenched. This is a subject that has been of major concern to Flora Nwapa, one of Africa's leading women novelists. Through Nwapa's writings, we examine the historical role which Igbo women exercised in their society; the pivotal and highly revered role of motherhood as an all-encompassing ideological framework of social ordering of the nation and the philosophical ethos which governed women's social, cultural, political, economic and spiritual life, the basis of which was the 'dual-gender' complementarity in place in society. The study concludes by demonstrating that only through a return to these time-honoured proven values of social co-existence can Africa extricate itself from the present state of human privations.