Tochi Eze

Writer | Debut novel THIS KIND OF TROUBLE forthcoming with @TinyRepBooks @McClellandBooks @MerkyBooks @penguinrandom August 2025 | Rep: @aemalecha

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

What a dream.
https://t.co/EInXPelHoX

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@ayo_newo So excited and grateful. Happy reading @ayo_newo

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@kelechi_onyeaka @dbrl Yaay! Thank you so much for sharing this with me! ✨

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

In this essay for @ElectricLit I bring together (match-make, really) a few of the African novelists I admire and pair them with writers of the African-Atlantic inheritance who have influenced my work.
So many thanks to the editors for having me. https://t.co/wjLogHpISx

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

@LizzyEmil78910 She is! She changed my life in more ways than this. Thanks for reading ! 🙏🏾

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It took me years to understand that Aunt Edwina’s stories were born out of her own longing for home, that her fabulous encounters with goats and turtles were her own way of constructing an elsewhere.

https://t.co/72QWu0mgXw

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@aganzeregg 🙏🏾🙏🏾

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@DapoDan Thank you dearest Dapsy! 💚💚

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@adebolarayo @Kitchnbutterfly Haha, it's because your heart is gold. From Twitter to Lagos to San Francisco, always open, always giving. So grateful for you, Rayo.❤️

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

Joy, with. Also joy, without.

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

"Can internationalism be a means to solidarity and mutual exchange between groups rather than top-down delivery of “palliative” aid to “desperate people”?"

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

.@MargotTudor shares thoughts on the future of international aid in the wake of the dismantling of USAID https://t.co/NfaWE7EPZ8

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

"There's something haunting but intriguing about this family" is exactly the feeling I want readers to enter with. Thank you so much for this mention @sashsolomon

[sash. @sashsolomon]

@alexbracken @rosiesrambles A notable mention goes to @tochi5's debut 'This Kind of Trouble' a 5⭐️ read on @NetGalley thanks to @TinyRepBooks. Charting a Nigerian's family's experiences in and through colonialism, there's something haunting, but intriguing about this family. Releasing in August 2025 ✨ ✨

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

🥹🥹🥹 thank you, Charles!

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

@tochi5 thank you for wonderful writing.

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@adebolarayo 🥹🥹🥹

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@Kemmy_O @MerkyBooks thank you so much!

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Yaay! and now I finally get to share the gorgeous cover for the UK edition of THIS KIND OF TROUBLE! So much thanks to the wonderful team at @MerkyBooks and to exceptional agents Allison Malecha and Jane Finigan. Let’s go August!! 🥹✨🙌🏾🎊

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@sharonadaigbe @MerkyBooks thank you so much!

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@DapoDan @MerkyBooks I appreciate this, Dapo!

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“If you wanted to understand complex questions in philosophy, was hanging out with a single philosopher the right idea?

An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting https://t.co/dDOo4WwmST

[Tochi Eze @tochi5]

I am rarely wise and not often kind, but what I do have is a voice behind me saying, “this is the way, walk in it.”