Nigerian writing received its second wind in exile. Over the past decade, a new crop of Nigerian writers, celebrated in the diaspora, has resuscitated Nigeria’s literary tradition.

At home, it is the business of publishing, rather than the art of writing that is uppermost in many young writers’ minds. Two decades of military rule coupled with the crippling effects of Nigeria’s precipitous economic decline in the 1980s and 1990s has left the cultural landscape in ruins.