Fiction

Promises are like tilapia from Lake Victoria—glittering, evasive… slippery. From warm Kampala to gloomy London, Goretti Kyomuhendo’s novel charts the joys and tribulations of Ajuna and her fiancé, Kagaba. Young, highly skilled, and ambitious, both are caught up in financial hardship in their native...

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favourite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions...

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to rewrite his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mould to his taste. Eighteen year old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a...

Ronke, Simi, Boo are inseparable mixed-race friends living in London. They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English, though they don’t all choose to see it that way. When Isobel, a lethally glamorous friend from their past, arrives in town, she is...

Moonbeam is a stirring collection of stories that reflect the intricate realities of our world, told through the eyes of some of Nigeria’s finest culture journalists. Stepping beyond the bounds of their everyday routine as journalists, these writers draw deeply from their creative wells...

Years after the events in Blackass, Furo Wariboko has settled comfortably into the identity of ‘Frank Whyte’. He’s preparing to travel to Europe for his first-ever vacation outside his homeland of Nigeria, laying eyes at last on the land of the people who share...

Furo Wariboko – born and bred in Lagos – wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead...

Na’ima’s story begins beneath the warm northern sun, where a chance encounter with Junaid, charming, patient, and tied to her family’s past, changes the course of her life. What starts as tender affection grows into a marriage layered with expectations, faith, and the unspoken...

“When we gathered in Aburi, Ghana, in August 2024 for the inaugural CANEX Book Factory Creative Writing Workshop, we had a clear purpose: to give emerging African prose writers from the continent and the diaspora a protected space for craft, discipline, and growth. This...

Love on the Dotted Line is a romance and family drama that tells the story of an unlikely pair. Ada Okeke, a newly widowed mother, needs to provide for her sons but has nothing to her name. Wande Badejo, a.k.a. “The Beast”, has conquered...

Mid 1950s. Northern Rhodesia. Angie is devoted to Prophetess Alice Lenshina. She dreams of a country where women take their rightful place as leaders. A world where everyone is treated fairly. Luka, her husband, fights for equality and justice in a segregated society. His...

Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhome, King Gbehanzin, is the apple of her father’s eye, loved beyond measure by her mother, and overprotected by her siblings. She searches for her place within the palace amidst conspirators and traitors to the Kingdom....

Getting a second chance is a beautiful thing… Bianca Bridge’s personal and professional lives are in tatters. She has lost her beloved mother and has only a distant relationship with her self-made father. And now, she’s been outed as the mistress of a government...

Two men wage war over custody of a long-lost medicinal formula, a formula reputed to prolong life. This battle will lead to a split in their community that slave traders and colonialists will exploit.

In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr Menka’s hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, Duyole Pitan-Payne. Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the...

Ifiok, a young journalist working for a public radio station in Lagos, Nigeria, aspires to always do the right thing but the odds seem to be stacked against him. Government pressures cause the funding to his radio drama to get cut off, his girlfriend...

Nice has just arrived Nairobi airport where she will be picked up by her old friend, Duncan, an American pastor. Duncan cannot know that Nice is fleeing her life choices, and that she is muling drugs. Duncan’s car crashes on the way back from...

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his uncle’s house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim...