When We Were Fireflies

Olukorede Yishau, writing for The Lagos Review, compared it favourably to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ben Okri's The Famished Road,^[1] praising "his precise and elegant voice".^[1] Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera of Open Country Mag gave it a 3.5 star rating, stating that it is "one of the best contemporary novels out of Nigeria".^[2] Both Yishuau and Chukwudera praised Ibrahim's prose-poetry style.^[2][1]