{"id":24242,"count":4,"description":"Two authors recommend their best books on Nigeria.\u00a0 The poet and novelist Helon Habila chooses his favourite memoirs and novels about the country<\/a> and Michael Peel, the Financial Times<\/em>\u2019 former West Africa correspondent, talks us through the five books that helped him understand Nigeria<\/a>.\u00a0 He includes Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and The Trial by Franz Kafka.\r\n\r\nWe have other interviews with Nigerian authors not exclusively focused on the country.\u00a0 Chigozie Obioma recommends his best books on boyhood and growing up<\/a> and David Olusoga, the historian and writer, chooses his best books on race and slavery<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe Ghanaian economist, George Ayittey, in his interview on Africa through African Eyes<\/a>, looks at African \u201cdevelopment\u201d in general but touches on Nigeria.\u00a0 He argues that a new paradigm is needed to tackle the ill effects of poverty and corruption and improve the effects of Western aid across the continent.\u00a0 The author Adam Haslett, in his best books on evil<\/a>, chooses Crude World<\/em> by Peter Maass<\/a>, which details how various countries including Nigeria have been negatively affected by the oil industry.\r\n\r\nA number of interviewees chose books set in Nigeria, or by Nigerian authors.\u00a0 The South African writer, Justin Cartwright chooses Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary<\/a> as one of his best books on Being White in Africa<\/a>.\u00a0 Michelle Jana Chen, on her best books on Displacement chooses Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em> by Chiamamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/a>.\u00a0 John Kampfner, the former CEO of index on Censorship chooses another novel by Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck<\/em><\/a> as one of his best books on Freedom<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe Zimbabwean novelist, Tendai Huchu chooses Things Fall Apart <\/em>by Chinua Achebe<\/a>, a novel set in the Nigeria of the 1890s for his best books of Historical Fiction<\/a>.\u00a0 Another Zimbabwean writer, Ellah Allfrey recommends Chika Unigwe\u2019s On Black Sisters Street <\/em><\/a>and a collection of short stories,\u00a0 A Life Elsewhere <\/em><\/a>by Segun Afolabi.\u00a0 Marina Warner on her best books of fairy tales<\/a> chooses a collection of short stories by the Nigerian writer, Lesley Nneka Arimah, What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky<\/a>. <\/em>Nnedi Okorafor's YA novel Akata Witch<\/a> i<\/em>s chosen as one of the best boarding school novels and chosen by Nigerian author Efua Traor\u00e9 as one of her best West African fantasy books for teenagers<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/africa\/nigeria\/","name":"Nigeria","slug":"nigeria","taxonomy":"category","parent":21097,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/21097"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24242"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24242"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}