Meet the 3 powerful books that have risen to the top. The official shortlist for The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025 is here!
These stories captured hearts, challenged minds, and earned their place among the best.
@HeyItsOyin@JCObioma@NikkiOMay#NigeriaPrize2025
#TheShortlist
#LiteraryExcellence #CelebratingStories
#NLNGPrizes
LAGOS & SOMERSET (to be precise, Haselbury Plucknett, it's a real place!)
This Motherless Land by @NikkiOMay#booktube review
https://t.co/PXDrzkYD8F
Highly recommended to our readers
My first boss and mentor (I was 20, we are going back in time here) is now one of my best mates and he’s coming to my Hillingdon event.
Join us! He will be heckling!
https://t.co/GMqqA6vpFd
Thank you @bertsbooks and @jennieg_author for making my #ThisMotherlessLand Paperback day perfect.
A wall of books (filled my narcissistic heart), dinner with the lovely Jennie (filled my cavernous middle), a ( sold-out) room of amazing book lovers.
It was all JOY
Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:
December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.
February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.
July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.
February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.
U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.
~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.
The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.
America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.
Slava Ukraina.
How good does this look!!!! (Bloody brilliant is the right answer)
I’ll be there - doing a panel with @LauraSRobinson@franquinn and @essiefox and yes, I’ll be fangirling like mad.
Come and join us 🙌🏽
@beyondbookfest
The @SouthfieldPL presents Tuesday Evening Book Club reads "This Motherless Land" by Nikki May on February 11 at 6:30 p.m. This book discussion is in honor of John and Dorothy Creecy who were instrumental in the opening of the Library and shared literature with the community.
First #NaijaGirls lunch of 2025.
Friendship is everything, especially when you don’t need backstory.
Did I channel Ronke and want to eat everything? YES.
Did I keep the Guinness bottle top? YES #ThisMotherlessLand
Am I sitting on the train in a food coma? YES