Essays
Collected Essays
A witty and thought-provoking collection spanning continents, family, love, work, injustice, ideas and the unexpected turns of contemporary life.
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Stories across cultures, continents and time.
Personal memoirs, essays and tales that are part of contemporary American, British and Nigerian social history—bringing space to voices and experiences too often left unheard.
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The writing
Memoir. Essays. Cultural history. Afrofuturist adventure.
From a childhood shaped by Nigeria and London to Wall Street, Windrush, venture capital and journeys into imagined futures, Gus Udo writes from an unusual vantage point—candid and often with keen insight and humor.
Selected works
Books by Gus Udo
Afrofuturist Children’s Fiction
Algernon & Ethelbert
#1 Trek to an Ancient Kingdom
Two siblings, their loyal dog and an eccentric grandmother race through time to recover sixteen looted bronze heads from the lost Udo Kingdom.
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Finance / Memoir
Tilted
Billion Dollar Blind Spot—Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, and the Greensill Caper
A personal and financial account of exclusion, venture capital pattern-matching and the human cost surrounding a multibillion-dollar financial scandal.
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Upcoming titles
EssaysForthcoming
Collected Essays, Volume II
A forthcoming second volume of collected essays by Gus Udo.
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History meets imagination
The lost Udo Kingdom enters an Afrofuturist adventure.
In Algernon & Ethelbert: #1 Trek to an Ancient Kingdom, two siblings journey through time to recover sixteen looted bronze heads of rulers from the Udo Kingdom, once a rival of ancient Benin.
Press & context
Interviews, history and the stories behind the books
“A unique voice—an insightful and amusing chronicler of our times.”