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These essays by the acclaimed African novelist and post-colonial theorist include pieces on important contemporaries including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, but also delves into the links between language and identity.

In his book The Trouble with Nigeria, the late Chinua Achebe, one of the most renowned Nigerian authors, who was Igbo, said: "Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo."

The exception is literature, where Achebe, and contemporary Igbo authors like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi have gained international fame.

Personal trials like this appear in Mahama's acclaimed writing - he has been published by a number of international news outlets and his memoir, My First Coup D'etat, won praise from two African literary greats, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe.

In Chinua Achebe’s novel “No Longer at Ease,” the sequel to his masterpiece “Things Fall Apart,” the author examines how Nigeria’s endemic corruption results from the exploitation of colonialism, and how everyone in the nation ends up both perpetrator and victim.