Damilare Kuku

Writer

Damilare Kuku has worked as a radio presenter, scriptwriter, film producer, actor and director. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in the arts. Her debut collection of stories, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, became a runaway bestseller in Africa upon its release in 2021, and was named the bestselling fiction title of 2022 in Nigeria, with international editions following in the UK (Swift Press), US (HarperVia) and Germany (Peter Hammer Verlag). Her first novel, Only big bumbum matters tomorrow, will be published in July 2024 by HarperVia in the US and Simon & Schuster in the UK.

 

According to Damilare- “Stories make the world a little less lonely. This is why I love storytelling.”