NIGERIA

 
This house has fallen: Nigeria in crisis
Karl Maier

Superb, compelling book about Nigeria's travails by a foreign correspondent

 
Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe

Landmark novel set during the scramble for Africa

 
Ake
 
Wole Soyinka
First of a fascinating series of memoirs, which include Isara and Ibadan, by Nobel prize winning author
 
Arrows of rain
 
Okey Ndibe

Powerful, gritty political thriller written by a Nigerian, but set in the fictional country of Madia