30 Minutes Igbo Game

By Andre Ibeh

30 Minutes Igbo Game is a coming-of-age novel that follows Emeka, a boy raised on the rough edges of Uselu in Benin City, where childhood was shaped by football pitches, street codes, tribal tension, and unspoken rules of survival. As friendships are forged and lost, violence and loyalty blur, and ambition grows teeth, Emeka learns early that fairness is a luxury rarely afforded to the vulnerable.From the chaos of Nigerian streets to the quiet hostilities of British institutions, the game changes form but not spirit. Migration, education, love, labour, and loss collide as Emeka navigates adulthood, confronting racism, power, belonging, and the cost of resilience. Both intimate and unsparing, the novel captures how boys become men, how systems mirror playground cruelty, and how survival often means understanding when the clock starts, when it ends, and what must be sacrificed in between.

Because the game is never fair.
Only timed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHN9LYG4
• ISBN13: 9798244503043
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"