Review of Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad

 This is a joint review of Nearly all the men in Lagos are Mad by Tolulope Johnson, Abiola Olarogba, Adeseun Adesina and Ayobami Oladunni

Damilare Kuku's Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad is a collection of 12 fascinating stories that would keep you glued to your seat until you're done reading.

From the first story titled "Cuck-Up" which is about a married woman who was been encouraged and cheered on by her husband to engage in extra marital affairs in order to fend for the family financially. Kuku's start out with the first sentence "One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off." would definitely have you engrossed to read further.

"The Gigolo from Isale Eko" centered around three best friends who were not only party riders but also promiscuous; going from one marriage to the other for gratification of romantic and career needs.

The "Anointed Wife" which is the third story, is more of an eye opening story. It centered around a woman whose husband despite been a Man of God still engaged in promiscuity and got involved in a sex scandal. With this, his wife referred to as the Mummy GO, still stood by him to defend his reputation. This is indeed an act of an anointed wife.

The forth story "International Relation" centered on both sexes jumping from one relationship to the other; filled with moments of "breakfasts". Lol!

The fifth story "Ode-Pus Complex" centered around a guy whose Mother always made decisions for and these decision went as far as disallowing him from getting married to Yejide, who was a strong and independent lady, fearing she might take her son away from her.

"The Lover's Vendetta" centered on a lady who found the love of her life while working as a cleaner and they got married on the long run. Unfortunately for her, years gone by and she was unable to conceive due to her husband's infertility problem. Whereas the husband concealed the secret with his uncle until she eventually got to know and their love life went south.

"First Times" centered on a secondary school girl who met a boy for the first time and fell head over hills in love with him. Her action came back to haunt her when the boy took advantage of her by raping her.

"Catfish" centered on a lady who unknowingly got married to a married man with children and had to move on with the shame when she found out.

"Sidelined" centered on two roommates one of whom got hooked up with a celebrity boyfriend from Instagram but unfortunately when the boyfriend came visiting, their friendship went south as she caught her roommate having a pleasurable moment with her supposed boyfriend. Indeed, she got sidelined!

"BeardGang" centered around gaymen who came together to form an association to fend for themselves by hooking up unsuspecting ladies to their fellow gaymen for a fee.

"I knew You" is about a bi-racial guy whose initial decision not to marry a lady he was in love with came back to haunt him and he had to live with the regret. This happened to be the only story with a guy's point of view.

"Independence Day" which is the twelfth story centered on a lady whose rape experience came back when she went to her child's school for an event and saw the guy that raped her who also came for the event with his child and wife. She took vengeance by going to the podium to expose and embarrass the guy by revealing what he had done. It was a moment of relief for her.

This book has so many aspects that we liked. To begin with, we like the book's depiction of the lives of both sexes captured in each stories. The description were very relatable. The narrative technique is top-notch, using different points of view-- first person, second person and third person narrative. The diversity is just so interesting.

Each of the 12 stories reflect the realities in our contemporary society, in Lagos Nigeria. It employs languages that are found mostly amongst typical Lagosian youth.

There is not a single thing we do not like about this book from beginning to end, as it accomplished its goal of being a fascinating read with a lot of comical passages.

Though it is an 18+ rated book and Kuku ought to have give an indication somewhere at the front pages to prepare the minds of modest readers like us. Lol! However, if we are to rate this book, we would definitely be giving a 5 out of 5 stars rating, because we enjoyed reading it and even detect no grammatical faults, leading us to assume it had been well-edited.

Lastly, all of the stories would have you in agreement with the title of the book "Nearly all the men in Lagos are Mad".

P.S. We appreciated the Kuku's recommendation of books from other authors at the end, which are also captivating books we cannot wait to lay our hands on and have a read.