• MRS. KUTI

    This is an account of my life from the day I was born, before I met Fela, and after he entered it like a comet in 1959.
    Without regret or rancour, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti invites us into her extraordinary life as a love interest, the wife and the estranged partner of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Afrobeat legend.
    Her writing takes us from years in a home for orphaned children in the English Midlands, to London where she met the dashing Fela at a party, to moving to Nigeria where Remilekun navigates culture shock, the complexities of love, loss, and the joys of motherhood. With unabating honesty, Remilekun shares her journey, her thoughts on marriage, justice, music and Nigerian society from the 60s to the 90s.

  • EVEN WHEN YOUR VOICE SHAKES

    Through the life of an ordinary girl, Even When Your Voice Shakes exposes the damage wrought by institutionalized misogyny and poverty and reveals how even those who are most disadvantaged are never without their own power.

  • FLYING THROUGH WATER

    Sena lives his life in rural Ghana as many teenagers do: going to school, playing football, and working on the family farm. But as poverty slowly pushes his family to the brink, he’s ready to do almost anything.

    When a larger-than-life stranger arrives in town to lure young people away with the promise of a better future, Sena is tempted. What follows is a journey that will take him far from home and those he loves, where he’ll need to use everything he’s ever learnt if he’s going to make it back alive.

  • THE JUDGE’S SECRET

    A Dragon-slaying Barrister
    Bespectacled Femi Williams appears mild-mannered, but he takes on the rich and powerful in defence of the weak. And he wins. Not in his personal life, though, so Femi’s sworn off romance. Appearing before Justice Iyoma Haruna, he knows they’ve met. But where and when eludes him. When he realises just who she is and what she did, will he expose her as a liar and fraud?

  • THE SENATOR’S DAUGHTER

    Rita the only daughter of billionaire, Senator Obaseki, hides behind her reputation as a spoilt wealthy heiress with no ambition to cover up a painful past. Former soldier Nosa Edosa, believes the Senator to be the epitome of greed and political corruption. Failing to bring him to justice through legal means, his last-ditch effort involves kidnapping the man’s daughter. The plan is simple, the execution flawless … until love gets involved. Neither Rita nor Nosa are what they seem, and as they discover themselves in this quest to right her family’s wrongs, they suddenly have something too precious to lose-their hearts. Experience the thrills of Nigerian politics, sizzling romance, and perilous suspense in this action-packed love story by Amaka Azie

  • ONLY BIG BUMBUM MATTERS TOMORROW

    he women of the family are loud in their criticism of Temi’s intentions but, in their quiet moments, they reflect on their own imperfect journeys, especially how their bodies and their looks have shaped their lives. Forgotten scandals and family secrets are suddenly laid bare. Is Tèmi really the crazy one?

  • PRIDE AND JOY

    As family members begin to arrive, Joy’s mother goes upstairs to take a nap. But when her grandchildren go to wake her, they find her unresponsive and immediately call an ambulance. Amidst the chaos, Auntie Nancy refuses to accept that her sister has died. Trailing the ambulance, Auntie Nancy has a divine encounter―a brown cow appears and God tells her that her sister will rise again on Easter Sunday like Jesus Christ. The zealous Auntie Nancy invites her pastor, her white garment spiritualist, the Nigerian community in Ontario and the local journalists.

  • WAITING FOR AN ANGEL

    Helon Habila’s vivid, exciting, and heart-wrenching debut opens a window onto a world in some ways familiar-with its sensuously depicted streets, student life, and vibrant local characters-yet ruled by one of the world’s most corrupt and oppressive regimes, a scandal that ultimately drives Lomba to take a risk in the name of something greater than himself. Habila captures the energy, sensitivity, despair, and stubborn hope of a new African generation with a combination of gritty realism and poetic beauty.

  • A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST

    When Temi, a commoner, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she believes it could be the key to ending the centuries-long war. But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor, and some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine.

  • THE QUESTION MARK AT THE END OF LIFE

    Familoni’s voice is poetic and unflinching, with a sharp sensitivity to human vulnerability. The collection is marked by themes of bodily autonomy, religious hypocrisy, patriarchal oppression, and psychological suppression—particularly as experienced by women. The stories are independent yet thematically unified, each one offering a different perspective on the central question posed by the collection’s title: what remains at the end of loss, betrayal, or silence?

  • SHE WHO KNOWS

    She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys experience the annual call to the Salt Roads. What’s just happened to Najeeba has never happened in the history of her village. But it’s not a terrible thing, just strange. So when she leaves with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake, there’s neither fanfare nor protest. For Najeeba, it’s a dream come true: travel by camel, open skies, and a chance to see a spectacular place she’s only heard about. However, there must have been something to the rule, because Najeeba’s presence on the road changes everything and her family will never be the same.

  • THE REST OF YOU

    A strikingly original work of Black British fiction inspired by the Twi proverb of Sankofa: looking back in order to move forward, The Rest of You is a story of generational healing, the bonds between sisters, and surviving familial migrant journeys. Tackling darkly serious themes yet full of hope and optimism, and told with an eye towards the future, Maame Blue’s extraordinary tale is an unforgettable celebration of womanhood, friendship, and family.

  • TWO TIMES MURDER

    Greg has no choice. He knows more than he’s saying about Rachel’s mysterious corpse. To add to his troubles, a school trustee plunges to his demise after a heated board meeting. Both deaths come with potentially lethal consequences. If he doesn’t find answers, and soon, Greg Abimbola might be the third man on the autopsy table.

  • THE COMEDIAN’S DIARY

    o begins this gripping and emotionally charged tale of redemption, addiction, and the delicate ties that bind us. Through the eyes of a notebook—a silent witness to the unravelling of Oga Simon’s life—this novel unveils the quiet battles fought within the soul, where the struggle to rebuild is just as painful as the fall itself
    Once a man of ambition and promise, Oga Simon’s life has unravelled under the weight of alcohol, regret, and lost opportunities. The familiar hum of Lagos pulses around him, but it offers no comfort, no escape from the spiral he finds himself in. Until a fleeting encounter with family; old wounds are reopened, and the possibility of change becomes painfully clear. But can a man trapped in his own vices truly find the strength to start over.

  • A TESTIMONY OF BLOOD

    For those with the wit to learn, there is no better teacher than death. Nowhere is this truth better known than in the Eredo; where death’s signature marks every corner as its leaders and people try to recover from a devastating attack. The lost princess Falina Almarak has been crowned queen of the Kasinabe and charged with the unenviable task of rebuilding a broken nation.

  • BOTTOM BELLE

    All I think about when I’m with you is sex, but I feel too guilty to act on it.
    Chiluba, a young and successful fashion designer, is introduced to her best friend’s uncle, George, the kingpin of the West African fabric industry to launch a project. They soon find there’s a lot they have in common other than the African fashion and fabric industry.

  • SO THE PATH DOES NOT DIE

    Protagonist Fina’s search for happiness and belonging begins on the night of her aborted circumcision and continues through her teenage years in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital; her twenties in the Washington Metropolitan Area; and ends with her return to Sierra Leone to work as an advocate for war-traumatized children.

  • BACK HOME ABROAD AND OTHER STORIES

    These compelling stories portray people between worlds, highlighting the tensions and possibilities of movement, memory, and change. Hollist’s voice is confident, incisive and quietly radical, marking this collection as an essential contribution to contemporary African literature.

  • IMAGINE THAT

    Starting over in Lagos was supposed to be simple—until Abebi’s new client, the infuriatingly charming Sanmi, turns her world upside down. But as her past catches up, she’s forced to confront everything she’s been running from, including her feelings for Sanmi. Will she find the courage to finally embrace the love she’s always denied herself?

  • IN SUCH TREMENDOUS HEAT

    In The Sun Sets in Singapore, Kehinde Fadipe captures the richness of this metropolis through the eyes of three tenacious women, who are about to learn that unfinished history can follow you anywhere, no matter how far you run from home.

  • THE STOLEN DAUGHTER

    My heart races as gunfire startles me from my sleep, and my lungs fill with smoke as I realise my village is being burned to the ground. I tremble as I discover my family is missing, but before I can find them, I am taken. With tears streaming down my face, I wonder if I’ll ever see my parents and little brother.
    In a small, peaceful village in Western Africa, fourteen-year-old Ṣìkẹ́mi dreams of being like the boys, learning how to hunt and defend herself. But as her father reminds her often, in order to make her family proud she must live by the rules and marry well.

  • SON OF THE MORNING

    Soon, loyalties will be shattered and reformed as Kincaid secrets clash with the princes of Hell, driving even the most powerful to their knees. Galilee Kincaid must decide if she will step into herself and embrace the consequences of power in this astonishing, seductive, and wildly original fantasy.

  • IN OUR OWN WAYS

    A master of self-reinvention, Senami disappears into thin air, taking the child and leaving Fadaka behind to pick up the pieces of her shattered reality. As the days stretch, Fadaka faces two choices: stay home and rebuild or fight for what is rightfully hers.

  • CURSED DAUGHTERS

    Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation. It asks us what it means to be granted a second chance, and how to live both wisely and well with what we’ve been given.

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