'Gasp in wonder' Marlon James author of Black Leopard Red Wolf 'Electrifying' Irenosen Okojie
author of Nudibranch 'Gasp-inducing' AnOther 'Joyous defiant' Caleb Azumah Nelson author of
Open Water 'Visionary' Guardian VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of
oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. Lagos is a city for all ... you
share this place with flesh and not-flesh and it's just as much their city as it is yours. Èkó
the spirit of Lagos and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and
through the lives of the 'vagabonds' powering modern Nigeria: the queer the displaced and the
footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a
driver for a debauched politician a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected
light on their experience with underground sex work a mother who attends a secret spiritual
gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine-in markets and
underground clubs in churches and hotel rooms-the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the
spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together but for what purpose? In
her debut novel VAGABONDS! Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian
capitalism corruption and oppression and offers a defiant joyous and inventive tribute to
all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance. 'Every year promises the birth of the
next literary superstar... VAGABONDS! is an exceptional debut' i-D 'Dazzling haunting angular
and funny' TLS 'If you read one debut novel ... this should be it' Los Angeles Times
'Gasp-inducing ... captures the lives of outsiders with spirit and tenderness' AnOther 'There
is nothing in the world like this book' Lesley Nneka Arimah author of What It Means When A Man
Falls From The Sky
