An abusive father is forced out of the safety of their hidden shelter to find his runaway son in a world where males are going extinct and female monarchs have resorted to nefarious methods to ensure continuity of the Nigerian race in Jidenna. An Ogbanje spawn travels to a post-apocalyptic Nigeria from the past with a solution even she is not aware of in Alarinka. In a Nigeria where the British never left, a white boy who lives in Lagos seizes a banned book from one of his father’s Nigerian household serfs and their friendship yields disastrous consequences in Passion Fruit.
Perplexed at the prospect of the Nigeria youth starting an uprising that would usurp the parasitic dictatorship of the elite filthy rich; the government lures them with the prospect of a better life with a deadly game in Dark. Overcome with the guilt of a crime he won’t speak of, a man goes to impale himself on The Killing Mountain as is customary in a post-apocalyptic future but fails to die properly, leading to complications. After trying out different eras of his people, a fourteen-year-old boy finally learns he was always made to fly. In an Abundance of Yellow Paper, the last poet on earth carries the burden of an assignment in a time when poetry has been banned, and one could get shot on sight for writing on paper. A witch and an Indian scientist contemplate Life on Earth whilst stranded on the moon.
In We Won’t Fade into Darkness the past and future of Nigeria comes to a head, exploitation of oil, our most notorious activity yields Nigerium, a poisonous gas that poisons air and bones, destroys reproductive organs and drives people insane. The common thread in these stories, indeed the only reason why every Nigerian pulls out of sleep to face the countenance of life every morning is hope.