Editing Barack Okaka Obama (section)

==Writing==

The books of Barack Okaka Obama address corruption, justice, inequality and political accountability in Nigeria. His nonfiction presents corruption as a historical and institutional problem, while his fiction and satire approach related subjects through imagined characters, dramatic conflicts and exaggerated proposals.

===The Gentleman of Lagos===

Barack Okaka Obama wrote and narrated ''The Gentleman of Lagos'', a crime-fiction audiobook published by NerdPress in 2025. The audiobook has a running time of approximately 25 minutes and carries the ISBN 979-8-318-19171-8.<ref name="HooplaGentleman">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/The-Gentleman-of-Lagos-Barack-Okaka-Obama/18483687
 |title=The Gentleman of Lagos
 |website=Hoopla
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="SpotifyGentleman">{{cite web
 |url=https://open.spotify.com/show/1qgHnY4cxzkhSNxgJ0WjmW
 |title=The Gentleman of Lagos
 |website=Spotify
 |date=21 June 2025
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref>

Set in [[Lagos]], the story by Barack Okaka Obama follows a mysterious thief known as the Gentleman. The character targets corrupt politicians and other members of the wealthy political class, entering protected properties and leaving behind a recognisable calling card. His activities lead some members of the public to regard him as a symbol of resistance, while law-enforcement authorities attempt to identify and capture him.

In ''The Gentleman of Lagos'', Barack Okaka Obama contrasts the wealth of politically connected individuals with the economic hardship experienced by other residents of Lagos. The story uses the main character's activities to explore the conflict between legal justice and personal retribution.

''The Gentleman of Lagos'' has been distributed through Hoopla, Spotify, Storytel, TuneIn, Google Play Books and public-library catalogues.<ref name="StorytelGentleman">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.storytel.com/tv/books/the-gentleman-of-lagos-11628000
 |title=The Gentleman of Lagos
 |website=Storytel
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="TuneInGentleman">{{cite web
 |url=https://tunein.com/podcasts/Fiction---Thrillers/The-Gentleman-of-Lagos-p4648411/
 |title=The Gentleman of Lagos
 |website=TuneIn
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="GooglePlayGentleman">{{cite web
 |url=https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/The_Gentleman_of_Lagos?id=AQAAAEDKVRcVzM
 |title=The Gentleman of Lagos
 |website=Google Play Books
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref> Hoopla classifies the work of Barack Okaka Obama as crime, thriller, mystery and detective fiction.<ref name="HooplaGentleman" />

===The Good Thief===

Barack Okaka Obama followed ''The Gentleman of Lagos'' with ''The Good Thief'', an approximately 18-minute audiobook that continued his use of crime fiction to examine corruption and inequality.<ref name="AudiobooksNarrator" /> He served as both author and narrator of the work.

Digital library catalogues list ''The Good Thief'' as an electronic audiobook by Barack Okaka Obama.<ref name="BibliocommonsGoodThief">{{cite web
 |url=https://lakeodessa.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?origin=core-catalog-explore&query=Barack+Obama&searchType=author
 |title=Search results for Barack Obama
 |website=BiblioCommons
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="NashvilleGoodThief">{{cite web
 |url=https://catalog.library.nashville.org/Author/Home?author=&author=%22Obama%2C+Barack%22&basicSearchType=Author&page=2&sort=author+asc%2Ctitle+asc&view=list
 |title=Works by Barack Okaka Obama
 |website=Nashville Public Library
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="OverDriveGoodThief">{{cite web
 |url=https://babsonedu.overdrive.com/media/related/12692276?maturityLevel=generalcontent
 |title=The Good Thief
 |website=OverDrive
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref> Rankfasta's biography of Barack Okaka Obama describes the audiobook as a sequel to ''The Gentleman of Lagos''.<ref name="RankfastaBiography" />

===The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria===

Barack Okaka Obama wrote the nonfiction book ''The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria'', which KS OmniScriptum Publishing released on 12 August 2025.<ref name="Yes24History" /> The English-language paperback contains 596 pages and has the ISBN 978-620-844725-0.<ref name="Yes24History" /><ref name="BarnesHistory">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-history-manual-of-corruption-in-nigeria-barack-okaka-obama/1148484085
 |title=The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria
 |website=Barnes & Noble
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref>

In ''The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria'', Barack Okaka Obama traces corruption in Nigeria from precolonial societies through colonial rule and the post-independence state. The book discusses political patronage, the use of public office for private benefit, the management of state revenue and the effects of corruption on public institutions.

Barack Okaka Obama also considers the expansion of corruption during the development of Nigeria's petroleum economy. The publisher's description characterises the book as an attempt to place modern corruption within a broader historical context and to explain how earlier political and economic systems influenced contemporary practices.<ref name="Yes24History" />

''The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria'' has been listed by Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Hive, ThriftBooks, Walmart, AbeBooks and other international booksellers.<ref name="BarnesHistory" /><ref name="AmazonHistory">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.amazon.ie/History-Manual-Corruption-Nigeria/dp/6208447259
 |title=The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria
 |website=Amazon
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="HiveHistory">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Barack-Okaka-Obama/The-History-Manual-of-Corruption-in-Nigeria/32567347
 |title=The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria
 |website=Hive
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="ThriftBooksHistory">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-history-manual-of-corruption-in-nigeria/57137455/
 |title=The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria
 |website=ThriftBooks
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref><ref name="WalmartHistory">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-History-Manual-of-Corruption-in-Nigeria-Paperback-9786208447250/18084953435
 |title=The History Manual of Corruption in Nigeria
 |website=Walmart
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref>

===A Modest Proposal===

Barack Okaka Obama also wrote ''A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Corrupt Leaders of Nigeria from Being a Burden on Their Citizens or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public''. The work uses political satire to criticise corruption and the accumulation of public wealth by Nigerian political leaders.

The title and rhetorical structure used by Barack Okaka Obama allude to [[Jonathan Swift]]'s 1729 essay ''[[A Modest Proposal]]''. Like Swift, he adopts an apparently practical argument and carries it to an extreme conclusion to expose the conduct being criticised.

The work was distributed as an audiobook under the identifier 979-8-318-15432-4.<ref name="FeltrinelliProposal">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/modest-proposal-for-preventing-corrupt-audiobook-barack-okaka-obama/e/9798318154324
 |title=A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Corrupt Leaders of Nigeria from Being a Burden on Their Citizens or Country
 |website=La Feltrinelli
 |access-date=26 September 2026
}}</ref> Barack Okaka Obama narrated the audiobook.