Naija Love Stories
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Ola Awonubi is an award-winning writer. Her short stories have featured in Story Time, Brittle Paper, Naijastories.com, Siren and various other publications and anthologies. Ola won first prize in the National Words of Colour competition and Wasafiri’s New Writing Prize for Fiction. Love’s Persuasion is Ola’s first journey into the world of romantic fiction. She lives in London.
An unemployed man sees a vision of the love he wants to have as he strikes up a conversation with a young lady on a packed Molue during a traffic jam.
A child gets drawn into the daily goings-on of her beautiful next-door neighbours.
A woman steps back into her hidden past when she meets her father for the first time and spots a torn photo.
A young man realises that he can’t fine tune his romantic inclinations to suit his heritage.
Naija Love Stories, set against the backdrop of a rich and vibrant Nigerian culture, will take you on a journey through the lives and loves of various characters, all grappling with different concepts of what it means to love, and to be loved. Using her lyrical style punctuated with sharp and witty undertones, Ola Awonubi deftly captures the power, poignancy, mystery, hilarity, longevity, complexity and simplicity of love – some of the many faces of love that any reader, anywhere in the world, will instantly recognize.