Introducing Critical Registrar’s expanded books coverage: essays, criticism, fiction, poetry, and recommendations from our writers and editors.
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim turns reincarnation into a way of thinking about memory, love and the many selves a person leaves behind, moving through Northern Nigerian cities in a novel whose strange premise is matched by a deeply inhabited sense of place.
Emmanuel Iduma’s search for an uncle lost to the Biafran war becomes a meditation on what families inherit from history, and on what happens when private memory collides with the politics of the present.