Revival booking place in Nigeria

LAGOS - Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, or the venerable Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

But Africa's most populous nation has a new crop of writers whose work is a far cry from the post-colonial era of their esteemed predecessors.

Olumide Popoola's novel When We Speak of Nothing, for example, tells the story of a gay teenager seeking the father he never knew in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.