Sage Abiola is a British-Nigerian writer and artist whose work explores identity, transformation, and the human mind.
Shaped by curiosity and enriched by diverse life experiences, his debut novel draws on two decades of personal and creative exploration.
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ABOUT SAGE ABIOLA
Sage Abiola’s journey into storytelling began with a dream, one of flight, shapeshifting, and an endless staircase spiralling upward. When he awoke, he knew with startling clarity: he was meant to write a novel. He started that night. Born in London in the early 90’s, Sage spent his early years in comfort before moving to Nigeria for school, where his family experienced a sharp fall from grace. In the wake of that silence, both emotional and literal, Sage stopped speaking. But through silence, he learned to listen deeply, to see keenly, and to observe the world with unusual sensitivity. That formative experience shaped his voice as a writer, one attuned to nuance, vulnerability, and the unseen layers of human experience.
Upon returning to London with his mother, he threw himself into life with fearless curiosity. He explored tailoring, visual art, finance, technology, and entrepreneurship, each new path a kind of apprenticeship in human behaviour, perception, and transformation. Looking back, he sees these seemingly divergent roads as the research behind his creative work: a deep, lived inquiry into what makes people change, and what holds them back.
Now in his mid 30’s, Sage is a writer, sculptor and painter, who works at the intersection of government, technology, industry, and academia in his day-to-day life. This is where policy, innovation, and imagination meet. His intellectual passions span neuroscience, philosophy, economics, psychology, and speculative fiction. His debut novel brings together two decades of lived experience and study, a story that meditates on ego, identity, and the fragile architecture of the human mind.
WORKS
TWO STATES. TWO BROTHERS. TWO RULES. ONE LIE.
Following the tragic suicide of their father, brothers Norman and Richard Wise are thrust onto opposing paths that will shape the fate of nations. Richard, desperate to save their struggling mother, cheats his way into the high-tech utopia of Nemes, a society obsessed with perfection. Meanwhile, Norman, driven by a relentless pursuit of truth, seeks to expose the dark secrets lurking behind Nemes’ glittering facade.
What began as childhood rivalries over chess and boxing now escalates into a life-or-death struggle across the opulent citadels of Nemes and the gritty favelas of Silany. In this Cain-and-Abel-like battle, the brothers’ choices will determine not only their own destinies but the future of a divided world.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
SILANY
SWALLOW MY PRIDE
