# Books from Nigeria

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove: Forest shrine of the Yoruba river goddess Osun. Writers include Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Buchi Emecheta, Ben Okri and others. Set in or written from Nigeria. First published 1952 to 2018.

## Books

- [The Palm-Wine Drinkard](https://africantales.net/books/the-palm-wine-drinkard), Amos Tutuola, Nigeria, 1952
- [Things Fall Apart](https://africantales.net/books/things-fall-apart), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- [Arrow of God](https://africantales.net/books/arrow-of-god), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- [Death and the King's Horseman](https://africantales.net/books/death-and-the-king-s-horseman), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1975
- [The Joys of Motherhood](https://africantales.net/books/the-joys-of-motherhood), Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, 1979
- [Aké: The Years of Childhood](https://africantales.net/books/ake-the-years-of-childhood), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- [The Famished Road](https://africantales.net/books/the-famished-road), Ben Okri, Nigeria, 1991
- [Purple Hibiscus](https://africantales.net/books/purple-hibiscus), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
- [Half of a Yellow Sun](https://africantales.net/books/half-of-a-yellow-sun), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2006
- [Americanah](https://africantales.net/books/americanah), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- [Stay With Me](https://africantales.net/books/stay-with-me), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nigeria, 2017
- [My Sister, the Serial Killer](https://africantales.net/books/my-sister-the-serial-killer), Oyinkan Braithwaite, Nigeria, 2018

## See also

- [West African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa)

Source: https://africantales.net/countries/NGA