Chinua Achebe | Nigeria Recently I became interested in collecting books from a series of African titles published during the 1960s and 1970s. Chinua Achebe was the founding editor of the African Writers Series that published books by African authors including novels, plays, poetry, short stories, and autobiographies. The first one I ever owned was…

Ayòbámi Adébáyò | Nigeria Infertility. Polygamy. Communication. Betrayal. Sacrifice. Family. Obsession. In Nigeria, married couple Yejide and Akin are being swallowed by the pressure from his family to conceive a baby. Akin’s mother in particular has taken it as such a personal slight, that she forces him to take a second wife, betraying the promise…