Nigerian author Jude Idada took to social media on his birthday to announce a new novel The Debate forthcoming from Masobe Books.

While most of the details are forthcoming, Idada has shared that The Debate will be a novel for adults and “historical in nature.” The novel is the culmination of three years of work.

Jude Idada is an actor, poet, playwright, and producer. He is a winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an AMAA best screenplay award, an AMAA for Best Film by An African in the Diaspora, an AFRIFF Globe best screenplay award, and an ANA prize for Drama alongside several other awards. His films, The Tenant, Queen of the Night, and Kofa have won various awards around the world. He has written and published a collection of short stories A Box of Chocolates, an anthology of poetry Exotica Celestica, three stage plays Oduduwa – King of the Edos, Sankara and L’Otor – The Devils Pilgrimage, the first book in a trilogy of novels By My Own Hands, and two children’s books Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs of the North and Boom Boom.

We look forward to hearing more about the forthcoming novel!