Books by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
“Blessings is a coming-of-age story—a queer coming-of-age story. It’s about a boy, Obiefuna, and his life in Nigeria. It starts when his father takes on a new apprentice. When this young man comes to the house Obiefuna is just captivated by him. It’s a life changing moment for him…The novel follows Obiefuna right up to and past the time when Nigeria outlaws homosexuality and makes it a criminal offence. At that point, it becomes almost a matter of life and death for him and his friends. People are being imprisoned. It was already an emotionally involving book.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Chukwuebuka Ibeh were recommended
The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize, recommended by Emma Styles
If you love adventure stories, you’ll be delighted to hear that there’s a book prize fully focused on them. Novelist Emma Styles, one of the judges for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, talks us through the shortlist for best published novel, from pirates in the Caribbean to World War II Italy, from Victorian London to a dystopian future Britain—by way of Nigeria and Tbilisi, Georgia.
Novels Set in Nigeria, recommended by Chioma Okereke
Nigeria is a vast, vibrant, and highly diverse country that offers endless inspiration for fiction writers. Here, the novelist and poet Chioma Okereke—whose new book Water Baby unfolds in Makoko, an extraordinary floating slum in Lagos—recommends five fascinating novels that are also set in Nigeria.
