Lola Akande (born 3 October 1965) is a Nigerian academic and fiction writer. She has published three novels and a collection of short stories including the award winning _What It Takes_ and her latest novel, __The Truth about Sadia_ which is endorsed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
Lola Akande
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| Born | Lola Akande (1965-10-03) 3 October 1965 (age 58) Oke-Ode, Ifelodun, Kwara, Nigeria) |
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| Period | 1986–present |
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| Notable work | What It Takes, The Truth about Sadia |
| Notable awards | Association Of Nigerian Authors Prize for Prose Fiction 2017 Association Of Nigerian Authors Prize for Short Story 2022 |
Akande was born on 3 October 1965 in Kwara state, Nigeria. She teaches African literature in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos.[1][2] Her first novel, In Our Place, was published in 2012 by Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Limited,[2] which was subsequently followed by What It Takes, which was published in 2016.[2] In 2020, she published a collection of short stories [1][3] which won the ANA award for Short Story, in 2022.
Lola Akande has published four works of fiction, a monograph and several academic publications.[4]
Akande, Lola. (2019) The City in the African Novel - A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces. Lagos: Tunmike Pages
Her work, What It Takes in 2017 earned her the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction.[6]
Her collection of Short Stories, Suitors Are Scarce in Lagos won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Short Story 2022.