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Yorùbá Boy Running
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Yorùbá Boy Running is a historical fiction novel by Biyi Bándélé, published posthumously in 2024. The book tells the story of Àjàyí Crowther, a young boy captured and sold into slavery in 1821, who later became a prominent figure in the Anglican Church. Publication history Yorùbá Boy Running was final work, completed just days before his death in August 2022, and was published posthumously in 2024. The book was first published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in April 2024. It was then published by HarperCollins in the United States in September 2024. Reception The book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was praised in a review for Kirkus Reviews. Estelle Shirbon wrote in a review for the Times Literary Supplement that the book was written with "exquisite precision and originality". Alida Becker wrote in the New York Times that the book had the "aura of ancestral myth" and that the "malign influence" of the slave trade was at the heart of the novel. 
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