Lola Akande

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
Born	Lola Akande (1965-10-03) 3 October 1965 (age 59) Oke-Ode, Ifelodun, Kwara, Nigeria)
Occupation	Faculty at the University of Lagos Author Public relations professional
Alma mater	Kwara State College of Technology (now Kwara State Polytechnic) University of Ilorin University of Ibadan University of Lagos
Period	1986–present
Genre	novel fiction
Subject	Literatures of the city feminist activism cultural studies postcolonial studies literary theory
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

Life and career

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.

Published works

Lola Akande has published four works of fiction, a monograph and several academic publications.^[4]

Novels

• Akande, Lola. 2023. The Truth about Sadia. Lagos: Tunmike Pages.
• Akande, Lola . 2020. Suitors Are Scarce in Lagos. Lagos: Tunmike Pages.
• Akande, Lola. 2018. Where Are You From? Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited.
• Akande, Lola. 2016. What It Takes Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited.^[5]
• Akande, Lola. 2012. In Our Place Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Limited

Short stories

• Akande, Lola. 2019 "I Fixed It" published in the anthology: Sisi Eko. Lagos: Farafina
• Akande, Lola. 2013 "Camouflage" published in the anthology: Dream Chasers. Ibadan: Nelson Fiction

Monograph

Akande, Lola. (2019) The City in the African Novel - A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces. Lagos: Tunmike Pages

Awards

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.