COLOURS OF HATRED

391pp., paperback, First UK Edition, Jacaranda, London, 2024

ISBN: 9781914344329

First published in Nigeria in 2020.

Winner of the first edition of The China Achebe Prize for Literature, 2021.

In her youth Leona, a famous Sudanese-Nigerian model, was asked by her father to marry Akinola, a billionaire and son of his rival and kill him afterwards, to avenge her mother. Now on her deathbed, Leona is driven to confess her sins - but how to do that when the sin was an act of love, loyalty and perceived fairness.

"Obinna Udenwe's Colours of Hatred is a daring novel that spans decades in its examination of how the effects of violence, political upheaval and revenge can alter the lives of individuals irrevocably." Karen Jennings, author of Crooked Seeds

"Udenwe's Colours of Hatred is both a commentary on contemporary Nigeria and an exploration of the power of love. He writes passionately about innocence and the loss of it, loyalty and betrayal, love and lust." Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters Street

Obinna Udenwe is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer, His first book, Satans & Shaitans, won the 2015 ANA Prize for Prose Fiction. His short stories have won The Prairie Schooner - Glenna Luschei Prize 2020 and The Short Story is Dead Prize 2016. He lives in Abakaliki in southern Nigeria, where he works as a writer, engineer and farmer.