Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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She masterfully skewers societal norms and exposes the ridiculousness lurking beneath the surface of everyday life. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

When the sexual content was repetitive (which can make you cringe at some point due to the raw descriptions), I asked myself if all what most men care about is their physical desires. Somehow, the author made Emmanuel the victim of her act of wickedness of reporting him and subjecting him to public humiliation. That should not have been comfortable for her and anyone in her shoes would have done the right thing by reporting it to the school authorities. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Even the story featuring gay men follows the same pattern: man and woman fall in 'like' and enter what the woman thinks is a monogamous relationship.

Meeting him again must have brought back the memory of the seemingly pedophile act that closed her off to having anything to do with him as an adult. 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. The book shows us the type of men Lagos women encounter in the dating scene and how it usually ends.A girl who drugs men to steal from them, a supposed virgin who cheats on her boyfriend with other men, a woman who hates her son and husband, and a Lagos big girl who cheats on her boyfriend with a ‘Yahoo boy’ who ends up cheating on her.

Some were really enjoyable such as Catfish (messy as hell), Ode-Pus Complex (madness) and Cuck-Up (also mad). In Kenya, we have street slang saying in Swahili, "soko ni chafu", loosely translated as "the market is dirty". Women in different chapters had to deal with objectification, oversexualization, condemnation, rape, second guessing of themselves. Please note, we cannot guarantee these will be safe from any damage that may occur on their journey to you.Honestly, the collection wasn't as diverse as I wanted it to be- but then again, the title told us exactly what to expect. This part of it, including the extensive use of complex and hard-to-read sentences, would have benefited from good editing. Anyone who could keep a white shirt clean at the end of the day in Lagos deserved a standing ovation. Delving into the stories, women are represented as cunning and deceptive creatures and the madness of men is a response to these attributes. This book underscores with wit, humour, wisdom, and sensitivity the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s craziest city that will prove universal and illuminating.

I knew I was going to make it in life so I was okay with the many phases and curveballs life threw at. That's the opening line of the book and through it's 12 short stories you're led through one experience after another of women from all walks of life being shown pepper and how they managed to make pepper soup or shito!Starr”, the author makes it known that the woman contributes nothing to the home as she follows her husband on all his tours and shows to ensure he doesn’t have baby mamas. You liked me so much I had no choice but to start liking myself, to start acting respectable, like someone who had something special waiting for them back home.