THIS FICTION CALLED NIGERIA: The struggle for democracy

 185pp., paperback, Verso, London & New York, 2024

ISBN: 9781804291801

Nigerian journalist and public intellectual Adéwálé Májà-Pearce examines his country's crisis of democracy and the threat of disintegration in the face of extreme poverty, unemployment, debt, banditry and Islamic fundamentalism.

"Adéwálé Májà-Pearce is Nigeria's most dependable journalist. With one eye firmly on the circus spectacle of domestic politics, he keeps up a compelling performance of his own, juggling Nigerian's hopes for the future and their bitter disillusionment. Just as you think he's about to drop a club or throw them all in the air and walk away, he reasserts his poise." Jeremy Harding, author of Border Vigils

"A wide-ranging, comprehensive, scathing and no-holds-barred excoriation of the British, Nigeria's ruling class, and all those complicit in the despoliation of the country. It is a must-read historical and political treatise." Toni Kan, author of The Carnivorous City

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce is the author of two memoirs, In My Father’s Country and The House My Father Built. His writing regularly appears in the New York Times, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement.