Abi Daré & Nikki May

Two critically acclaimed British-Nigerian authors discuss their captivating second novels about the power of women, friendship, love and escaping from your past. Abi Daré continues the story of former housemaid Adunni in And So I Roar. About to start school with the support of Tia, Adunni is summoned back to her village where she must save not just herself but all the young women in Ikati. While Nikki May’s This Motherless Land tells the tale of two cousins, Nigerian Funke and English Liv, who have to negotiate the legacy of their mothers and see if they can carve out a path for themselves.

Abi is the bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice which was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the 2020 British Bookseller Awards Debut of the Year and the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year. Nikki is the critically acclaimed author of Wahala which won the Comedy Women in Print New Voices Prize, was nominated for the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award and the Diverse Books Award. It is being turned into a major BBC TV drama series.

Hosted by Ellah P. Wakatama, literary critic and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.