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Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
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The Interpreters
Five young Nigerian intellectuals home from study abroad, a journalist, an engineer, a lecturer, a painter and a civil servant, meet in the bars of Lagos and Ibadan and try to make sense of the new country.
Things Fall Apart
A Nigerian village elder watches his world collapse under the weight of British colonialism, losing everything because he cannot bend.
Arrow of God
A priest in colonial Nigeria tries to maintain his authority and his faith as the British administration systematically dismantles the structures that gave both meaning.
A Bend in the River
Salim, from an Indian Muslim family long settled on the East African coast, takes over a shop in a town at the bend of a great river in the African interior, in the years after independence.
Dream Count
During the pandemic, four African women in America and Nigeria, a travel writer, a lawyer, a banker and a Guinean housekeeper whose life is upended by an assault, look back on love, friendship and the lives they hoped for.
Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as teenagers in Lagos; Ifemelu leaves to study in America and discovers race, while Obinze, shut out of the US after 9/11, ends up undocumented in London.
Nervous Conditions
A Shona girl pursues education in 1960s Rhodesia, confronting colonial and patriarchal barriers.
A Grain of Wheat
In a Kenyan village in the days before independence in 1963, the villagers want to honour Mugo, a quiet man they believe was a hero of the Mau Mau struggle.
Weep Not, Child
Njoroge, a boy in colonial Kenya, is the first in his family to go to school, and dreams of education as the Mau Mau rising tears his family apart.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A nameless railway clerk resists corruption in post-independence Ghana.
Staying On
Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a retired colonel and his wife, have stayed on in an Indian hill station after Independence, living in the annexe of a hotel whose owner wants them out.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
A Lagos nurse narrates, with dry exhaustion, the third boyfriend her beautiful younger sister has killed and asked her to help clean up after.