GHOSTROOTS

208pp., paperback, Virago, London, (2024) 2025 

ISBN: 9780349018249

A collection of twelve speculative short stories that explore the borders between psychology and superstition, tradition and modernity in Nigerian society.

In this perceptive and astute collection, 'Pemi Aguda tells of the metaphysical cracks on the surface of contemporary Nigerian society with an uncompromising humane touch" Emmanuel Iduma, author of I Am Still With You

"Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... Aguda stirs her cauldron of social criticism, feminism, structural invention and grotesque gothic twists into a triumph of genre-bending storytelling, a kind of African uncanny all of her own ... thrilling and disturbing" Financial Times

‘Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the winner of the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award and a graduate of the Zell MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in American ShortFiction, Granta, One Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope and The Best Short Stories 2022 and 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, among other publications.