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The novel Nine Lives by El Nukoya won the 2007 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) / Jacaranda Prize for Prose.
“The book “Baron of Broad Street” focuses on contemporary Lagos: conflicts (of a different kind, class, culture, identity, moral); consciousness; a fresh conversation about who we are; and a daring confrontation of the realities thereof,” El Nukoya said. Written over a period of seven years, El Nukoya’s new book has received several endorsements and many accolades from the literary world.
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El Nukoya dwells on the social contradictions endemic in the Nigerian society ─ a society where abject poverty permeates abundant wealth; where blinding ignorance triumphs over real intellectualism; where a progressively non-descript culture trumps a hitherto entrenched heritage; where blatant mediocrity precedes a parade of token certificates. Prominently, El Nukoya explores the despair of otherwise gifted youths, failed by the society’s insulation to the need to create credible avenues for social mobility – a society’s failure to facilitate a fair chance.
El Nukoya maiden novel – Nine Lives – which won the ANA-Jacaranda Prize for Prose has been described as a “riveting page turner!”, “that rare thing: an authentic Nigerian blockbuster!
El Nukoya says he is flattered by the praise of his first novel, Nine Lives, pointing to his boyhood heroes as his inspiration to wri
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Elnukoya
Author of Nine Lives & Baron of Broad Street
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18 Apr
2026
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