Name: Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad
Rating: 3.941176470588236 (17 reviews)

Damilare Kuku

Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad

Temi Awani

The writing is super interesting my and kept me on my toes.

Ilham Usman

Interesting read.

The writing is super interesting my and kept me on my toes.

Esther Jonathan

Adebimpe Bashorun

For her debut novel, Damilare Kuku made us laugh, shocked and included a lot of reality. Most books I have read that has Lagos in it is either in the 90s or didn't capture the essence of the state. And despite all the laughs and figure-it-out-yourself endings, she managed to capture Lagos of the now. All the slangs and the hectic living. 

On to the stories, I felt connected to some of the stories as an average living Lagosian and she gave me a new look to the "big" madams and ogas of Lagos and what type of lives they might be living. The stories were diverse and truly captured the mad men and women who thrive to live and love in Lagos. 

Damilare Kuku's Nearly all men in Lagos are Mad is anthology of short stories of finding and losing love and relationships in one of the busiest cities in the world. Expect to laugh, feel and have your mouth hanging open.

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. There’s a story of a young lady who tries to find her oyibo soulmate on the streets of Lagos; another of a pastor’s wife who defends her husband from an allegation of adultery; a wife takes a knife to her husband’s penis; a night of lust between a rising musician and his Instagram baddie takes an unexpected turn. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad underscores with wit, humour, wisdom and sensitivity, the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s most notorious city.

Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad

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