5 Books Featuring Smaller West African Deities

Tobi Ogundiran is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Jackal, Jackal, a Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Summer Read, which has been described as “Grimm by way of Amos Tutuola; Stephen King meets Cyprian Ekwensi”. He has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, Locus, British Science Fiction Association, and Nommo awards. His short fiction has been collected in several Year’s Best anthologies, and also featured on the hit podcast LeVar Burton Reads. His most recent work is In the Shadow of the Fall, a novella about Yoruba gods and the beings that hunt them. Tobi has called many places home, including Lagos, Russia, and now Oxford, Mississippi.