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A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in...

You were promoted for being the best operator, but your instincts are now keeping you in place. You still fix what breaks, still answer faster than anyone else in the room, and still hold the organisation together by being present inside it, which is...

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace… So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it’s Eniiyi’s turn – who, due to her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

FEMI OTEDOLA is one of Africa’s greatest philanthropists. The self-made entrepreneur and Forbes-rated billionaire dreamt of his first business before he was ten years old and made his first billion by the age of 41. Part business book, part memoir, this book charts Otedola’s...

Celebrate the classic and contemporary cooking of Nigeria, whose food is as rich and diverse as its people. In Nigeria, the word “chop” is all about food and feasting, and Chop Chop gets right to the heart of an incredibly flavourful, complex, and beloved...

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...

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...

Across Africa, the shift from authoritarian rule to elective civilian government has brought new challenges. Among them is the judiciary’s evolving role in political outcomes. Judges, once constrained arbiters of electoral disputes, have become increasingly unconstrained in determining who holds power—shifting legitimacy from voters...

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...

The book I’d press into the hands of girls and boys, as an inspiration for a future “world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves.” ’Books of the Year, Independent.

Proverbs in most African languages are crisp, pithy and condensed means of saying much with few words. They are, of course, relevant to the custom, tradition, experience and way of life of the people. They are in a way idiomatic and at times diplomatic...