Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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Kuku delivers right up to the end with a story that seems set apart from the rest of the collection because there isn’t any humor, which carries the bulk of these stories. The range of stories, ethnicities, and experiences really threw me in for a loop as every story was something new that I could enjoy.

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So, if anyone can collate stories about the madness of the men, there deserves to be one revealing the madness of the women.

The stories were easy to read but the sex scenes seemed forced to me and I found them unnecessary at some point.The final story had me in my feelings though and men like Charles in Independence Day deserve to be in a dark place they can never come out of for the trauma they cause. My favourites were International relations, A Lovers Vendetta, Side Lined, Independence Day and Beard Gang - something about its crudeness, factuality and engagement was hooking.

Again like all the books I read by Nigerian female authors, the book has a nice warm Nollywood feel. It sometimes made the transition from the end of one story to the beginning of another a bit jarring for me.Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad underscores with wit, humour, wisdom and sensitivity, the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa's most notorious city. An example is when Kenny’s mother in ‘Swiped Right’ speaks ill of Bella for being on Tinder but thinks that it is men being men when Kenny brings it up that his cousin must have been on Tinder to have met her there. it deftly analyses the various archetypes women are likely to encounter in the dating scene in the city – from serial cheaters, to mummy’s boys, from the ‘fake it till you make it’ adherents to the ones who can’t commit. I finished the first 4 stories and completely stopped on the 5th story because I didn't sign up for all that.

While Lagos, Yoruba, and indeed,Nigerian men have their peculiarities, many of which are far from gentlemanly or chivalrous, the sustenance of moral decadence in a generation that sees sex as a commodity, is bound to result in unfortunate eventualities, of which women tend to bear most of the brunt. This book underscores with wit, humour, wisdom, and sensitivity the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s craziest city that will prove universal and illuminating. Women in different chapters had to deal with objectification, oversexualization, condemnation, rape, second guessing of themselves. Anyhow, it still involved the reader in the storyline and made me feel like I was listening to a story from a friend. Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad is a short story collection written by Nigerian author and actress Damilare Kuku.

The idea that women are the propellers of the madness of nearly all the men in Lagos doesn’t plausibly apply to Stella or Chidubem in ‘Match Made in Heaven’. What is also remarkable about the book is that the stories are not told solely from a female perspective.