Books by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
“It’s a gay coming-of-age novel set as Nigeria was on the verge of criminalising same-sex relationships with the Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2013. It’s a tender, beautiful text. From someone so young, Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a supremely skilled writer and I can’t wait to see what he produces next.” Read more...
Chioma Okereke, Novelist
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.
