To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images.Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in his essay Caleb Femi examines how he is rooted to Nigeria through memories of birth, history, language and culture.Powerful, lyrical and entirely unf...

Winner of the Forward Prize and chosen as a Book of the Year by The Guardian and the BBC, a career-launching collection combining poetry and photography that explores the hopes and hazards of being young and Black in South London.What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at thirteen because “you fit the description of a man”—and where it is possible to wal...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024.Winner of the Sky Arts Award for Poetry."[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party." —Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024.Winner of the Sky Arts Award for Poetry."[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party." —Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie