Fiction

Two boys venture into a nearby forest, to hunt for bats and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease... . In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent...

Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home, and found something more complex in its place. . . Searching through her mother’s belongings...

Deep in the Niger Delta, officer Chike Ameobi deserts the army and sets out on the road to Lagos. He is soon joined by a wayward private, a naive militant, a vulnerable young woman and a runaway middle-class wife. As they strive to find...

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...

Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?”. . . Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? is a fresh, uplifting story of an unconventional heroine who...

Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?”. . . Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? is a fresh, uplifting story of an unconventional heroine who...

How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a...

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn’t understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness...

Long after Fina has left Sierra Leone for America, memories of a broken initiation still haunt her. She longs to return, to find her grandmother and right the path that has been set for young girls centuries past. Her journey from the streets of...

This Motherless Land is a “vibrant coming-of- age story that explores love, longing and belonging in a multi-cultural family” (Charmaine Wilkerson). When Funke’s mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief...

When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All- American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion in Sugar Land, pizza parlours, and dance classes. Desperate to please, she’ll happily cater to her family’s needs....

LAGOS WILL NOT BE DESTROYED The gods have fallen to earth in their thousands, and chaos reigns. Though broken and leaderless, the city endures. David Mogo, demigod and godhunter, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver...

In BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories, Pede Hollist presents fifteen stories of lives crossing continents, cultures, and personal histories. Hollist explores how migration reshapes narratives that confront racism, patriarchy, memory, and the unresolved weight of home. These compelling stories portray people between worlds, highlighting the...

A Meal Is a Meal is a gothic collection of food-themed stories that comment on the human condition. In the titular story, a young woman lures and kills a love interest in order to host her cannibalistic family to a meal. In “Potluck Jollof”,...

A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend’s behaviour grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A...

Set in Abuja, Nigeria’s new capital city, The Termite Colony is the story of three friends – Uche Okonji, a committed democrat, Itohan Osagie, a Marxist, and Kanayo Uzondu, a passionate Pan-Africanist. Soon after democracy returns to the country, Uche and his two friends...

Ṣemilore “Ṣemi” Coker, a brilliant product developer, is having a rough day, made worse by an infuriating encounter with Toluwalashe “Lashe” Williams, a privileged entrepreneur. Their paths cross again that evening at a Lagos bar, and despite initial sparks of irritation, a deeper connection...

Temi and Wale meet in London. They flirt, date, get to know each other’s friends. Then they break up. And Wale goes on a reality dating show. Instead of giving into heartbreak, Temi throws herself into her dream: writing. She’s within touching distance of...

After a childhood in the backwaters of a Nigerian fishing town, up-and-comer Senami Mausi is proud of the man he has become. His sprawling compound is his castle and the beautiful Fadaka, daughter of the wealthy Silva family, is his queen. Thanks to the...