Books I read in 2026

Mostly African writers and fiction (my favorite tbh). Tried out some Ugandan and Kenyan history through Besigye and Wangari Maathai, was not disappointed.

  • Where Rivers Go to Die — Dilman Dila
  • I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman (trans. Ros Schwartz)
  • Unbowed — Wangari Maathai
  • Big Little Fights — Jackson Biko
  • A Decent Man — Gilbert Bassey
  • The Blocksize War — Jonathan Bier
  • Secret Lives and Other Stories — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • And Then He Sang a Lullaby — Ani Kayode
  • Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad — Damilare Kuku
  • Wanna Bet? — Talia Hibbert
  • Kizza Besigye and Uganda's Unfinished Revolution — Daniel K. Kalinaki
  • Between Friends & Lovers — Shirlene Obuobi
  • When Love Visits — Comfort Omovre
  • Along Came Amor — Alexis Daria
  • One Week in October — Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi