Books by Seun Odukoya
my little girl
Fatherhood. Who can truly explain the joy, the pain, the fears, the excitement, the worry, the complications? No one – except maybe fathers. In the immortal words of a certain singer; ‘any man can make a baby; it takes a special kind of man to be a father’. This is a compilation of stories, loosely based on a series of events concerning the narrator, a certain little girl and the simple complications of life.
love drops
‘It doesn’t take a day to recognize sunshine’, however love sometimes shows up in the oddest of ways and we almost don’t recognize it. Love Drops is a collection of short stories about this and how, failure to recognize something doesn’t change what it is.
a picture is not a thousand words
A collection of short stories inspired by artwork created by friend and constant collaborator Sunny Efemena, and based on the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures can be interpreted in a number of ways.
song about aids
Frank is your typical Nollywood young man; just finished NYSC, gets a great job and starts living the life. He moves a bit too fast, gets carried away and the consequences come just as fast. The first in what is supposed to be a series.
this ain't poetry
A collection of poems, 33 poems that speak issues like love, hate, fear, tribal hate, manhood, rape, relationships and so on – while challenging the notion that poetry ‘looks like this and sounds like that’. It has some featured guests; a couple of established poets and friends.
booooom!
A bomb explodes at a certain bus stop in Lagos. The news, everyone calls it a terrorist attack. However, the victims have a different story to tell. In simple narrative style, we follow each of the victims as they live through their last minutes.
lebe: first cut
An amateur boxer refuses to fight for a sports fixer, and is framed as a result. He goes to Kirikiri, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and his trainer. Events conspire to favor him and he is released after nine years, to a Colonel and his idealist, paraplegic son, Kelvin. Together, the son and the boxer form a partnership. Their goal: clean up Lagos streets or never stop trying!
lebe book ii: second strike
An amateur boxer refuses to fight for a sports fixer, and is framed as a result. He goes to Kirikiri, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and his trainer. Events conspire to favor him and he is released after nine years, to a Colonel and his idealist, paraplegic son, Kelvin. Together, the son and the boxer form a partnership. Their goal: clean up Lagos streets or never stop trying!
lebe: the final act
An amateur boxer refuses to fight for a sports fixer, and is framed as a result. He goes to Kirikiri, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and his trainer. Events conspire to favor him and he is released after nine years, to a Colonel and his idealist, paraplegic son, Kelvin. Together, the son and the boxer form a partnership. Their goal: clean up Lagos streets or never stop trying!
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