Ayo Deforge

[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I now live in France and currently have unpublished manuscripts set here too.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 ☺️

[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 ☺️

[Platy the Perrypus @xvimusings]

While we're still on this conversation about storytelling, can someone explain the Nigerian author's obsession with Lagos? 35 other states and Nigerian fiction keeps finding its way back to Lagos. We're tired please. Where are the Makurdi stories? Edo? Can somebody amuse us?

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@elnathan_john Me and my friends too 😅😅😅

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@elnathan_john ❤️😅

[Chapterone @chapteronehq]

Join us tomorrow

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@twreadingclub Thank you Everyone

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@twreadingclub For Under the Rain, the characters were like people I know

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@twreadingclub Not with this story. Depends on the book I am writing

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

@twreadingclub I can hear you

[The African Literature Bookclub @twreadingclub]

“Sometimes, you might think this is the love of my life. But if it is not the same for the person, you have to let it go.” - @ayodeforge

[The African Literature Bookclub @twreadingclub]

We partnered with @chapteronehq to read @ayodeforge’s UNDER THE RAIN in April. We can’t keep the lovely review to ourselves so we’re having a Twitter spaceee!!!!

📆 May 2nd
⏰ 5-7 pm

The link to join is in the comments below. Set a reminder!!!!!

See you tomorrow 🫶🏿

[Chapterone @chapteronehq]

We are pleased to announce that the book club @LadyInkSociety will be reading Under the Rain by @ayodeforge on our platform this April.

Click on the link in the bio to read this book for free during this month of April.

[Ayo Deforge @ayodeforge]

Deforge’s deft weaving of the love lives of Bolaji and Shola is art in service of social crusading that cuts at the root of teenage love and its potential catastrophic consequences.

https://t.co/CnjKwgENQA

[The African Literature Bookclub @twreadingclub]

APR 2026

Title: Under the Rain
Author: Ayo Deforge (@ayodeforge)
Country: 🇳🇬
Genre: Mwah Mwah (Romance)

This month, we are partnering with the lovely guys at @chapteronehq & everyone at the bookclub will be reading exclusively on their platform!

Excited for this one!!