Start Here: Nigerian Fiction Essentials

If you only ever read five Nigerian novels, make them these. Each one is a book we've handed across the counter a hundred times and never had come back disappointed: a marriage cracking under the weight of childlessness, a woman inhabited by spirits, three old friends at a Lagos wedding, a queer chosen family across a whole city, and a quiet espionage story set in 1976. Between them they cover the range of what contemporary Nigerian fiction can do, and any one of them will send you looking for the next.