Ayo Deforge

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@nnletterboxd Many many thanks 🙏🏾

[Roving @roving_thinker]

It’s sickle cell awareness month, and these books explore sickle cell;

1. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
2. Til Death by Busayomi Matuluko
3. Under the Rain by Ayo Deforge
4. Starting Over Again by Amaka Azie
5. For Such a Time as This by Shani Akilah

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@roving_thinker Thank you 🙏🏾

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@masobebooks @tobieraka 🙌🙌🙌

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Saturday is for slow living: slowing down, soft life, and getting lost in a good story.

If you’re looking for a quick read this weekend, try Swept Away.

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

Looking for a quick weekend read?

Meet Jade, a young Nigerian determined to prove that studying French can take her places...

Swept Away by @ayodeforge is now available with free early access. Read Chapter 5 here on @TalesNWhispers_

https://t.co/t4dTOmO9qu

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@EziomaKalu Thank you for sharing 🙏🏾

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Jade is desperate to escape her father and boss. She’s searching for another job so she can save enough money to rent a place of her own.

Read Chapter 4 of Swept Away by Ayo Deforge on Tales & Whispers: https://t.co/P2QBxmZxTB

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

At home, Jade and her father are constantly at loggerheads. At work, her French boss, Patron, is insufferable—shouting all day and smoking like a chimney…

Read Chapter 4 of Swept Away by @ayodeforge on Tales & Whispers: https://t.co/N6V0Y2IJCF

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Hi everyone,

Chapter 2 is out now
Link: https://t.co/mGfSdoSdC8

Did you read Chapter 1 yesterday?

A huge thank you to everyone who read, commented, and shared their thoughts.

If you haven’t started yet, here’s the link to read Chapter One:

https://t.co/PlGI1whpDt

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

Are you reading Swept Away by @ayodeforge on Tales & Whispers? Did you read Chapter One yesterday? Chapter Two is out!

Jade is 24, but her father still gives her an 11 p.m. curfew on weekend…

Read it here: https://t.co/YBfHtXGjzv

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

But as their relationship becomes tangled in lies, ambition, and betrayal, Jade is forced to confront the painful consequences of misunderstanding true love.

Set in Lagos, Swept Away is a story of fatherlessness, identity, love, and betrayal.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Hi Fam,

I’m excited to share that I’ve partnered with Tales & Whispers to give readers exclusive early access to my upcoming novel, Swept Away.

Thank you to Tales & Whispers for this opportunity, and thank you for supporting my work.

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

@ayodeforge’s new book Swept Away is coming very soon. And I can’t wait for you all to read this gem of a book.
While we wait, you can read the first chapter here.

https://t.co/IZvu5PfwZ5

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Synopsis

At twenty-four, Jade has never known a father’s love. Raised by an emotionally distant man, she grows into a young woman longing to be loved.

Then she meets Alex, a charming French policeman stationed in Nigeria, and believes she has finally found love.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@thejasonthayer Did you get to finish and publish the memoir?

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Thank you so much @Omarthewanderer for this beautiful review. I have no qualms going back to it again and again ☺️

[Ebri Kowaki @Omarthewanderer]

On this Ai bogged timeline, I tell real stories in every piece, through immersive language.

Lately, I reviewed @ayodeforge's second novel, & the internal philosophy of Ray's paints.

Read Here-
https://t.co/GE0Az2VP1W

https://t.co/zqQyUxtVCg

[Ebri Kowaki @Omarthewanderer]

On this Ai bogged timeline, I tell real stories in every piece, through immersive language.

Lately, I reviewed @ayodeforge's second novel, & the internal philosophy of Ray's paints.

Read Here-
https://t.co/GE0Az2VP1W

https://t.co/zqQyUxtVCg

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

This Friday, 5 June, at 7pm WAT, I’ll be joining Ikenna Okeh on X Spaces to discuss Nigerian traditions in diasporic writing.

Please join us. I’m looking forward to the conversation.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Join us. This Friday. X Space.

[Umuọfià Arts and Books Festival @UmuofiaBookFest]

Join us on the 5th and 6th of June 2026 for two Twitter Spaces with the amazing @IkennaOkeh, @ayodeforge, @akazahrab, and @adedayoagarau as we discuss their works and

1) Nigerian Traditions in Diasporic Writing

2) Literary Longevity: Preserving books and Literary Communities

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@LadyEHale Live and let’s live! #womenhatingwomen

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

I now live in France and currently have unpublished manuscripts set here too. The challenge is that publishers often don’t know how to market books by an African writer set in a non-Anglophone environment.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

A Nigerian writer setting their story in Lagos might simply be Lagosian by origin. Or Lagosian by birth. Or even by being raised there. (In my case, all three). And sometimes, honestly, it’s also because Lagos is a setting publishers already understand how to market and sell.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

A Nigerian writer setting their story in Lagos might simply be Lagosian by origin. Or Lagosian by birth. Or even by being raised there. (In my case, all three). And sometimes, honestly, it’s also because Lagos is a setting publishers already understand how to market and sell.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

To be fair, I set my stories in Lagos because I am a Lagosian who spent the first thirty years of my life there. Although I no longer live there, I continue to write about Lagos from memory. Lagos is what I know ☺️