Eggplant Appetizer from Nigeria
Bake or steam the eggplant until tender -- about 25 minutes. Scrape out the soft flesh from the skin. Add the sesame paste to this, the salt, garlic and lemon juice. Mound on a small dish and sprinkle with parsley. Serve with flatbread. A simple ... [... more]
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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London since the age of four. She completed her first novel The Icarus Girl before her nineteenth birthday. She graduated from Cambridge University in June 2006 and lives in London. The ... [... more]
Random House |
The Famished Road
Ben Okri was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He lives in London. In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's , it combines brilliant narrative ... [... more]
Random House |
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended ... [... more]
Random House |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We ... [... more]
Random House |
Charles Chadwick
Charles Chadwick has lived and worked in England, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Brazil, and Poland. He lives in London. This is his first novel. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Ellease Southerland
Ellease Southerland, recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Poetry, is professor of African Literature at Pace University in New York. The author of the novel , Ms. Southerland divides her time between Nigeria and New York City. and the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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