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These 267 original poems by 127 poets from 4 continents celebrate Pius Adesanmi, reflect philosophically on existence, mortality, and immortality, and/or offer hope for the living.

`The Thing Around Your Neck, with its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, demonstrates that [Adichie]is keeping faith with her talent and with her country.’ Sunday Times.

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...

Nigerians are aware that otherwise normal people, including successful professionals, could nurse a feeling of emptiness and despair that ultimately triggers suicide. But at a time concerted efforts were needed to address the challenge, reporting such tragedies tend to either glamourise or stigmatise what...

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...

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...

My Life and Times: A Memoir tells the story of how a young man from the small village of Idua in Akwa Ibom rose to become the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

Juba and the Fireball is about a little boy’s struggle with anger. Yejide Kilanko breaks down a difficult emotion that many children struggle with, and which their parents do not understand. –Ugo Anidi, author, Half Hour Hara series.

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....

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...

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...

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...

Eyeshadow and Lipgloss is the second book in the A-Files series following sisters, Nita and Adesuwa. Nita’s life is on the upswing - top student columnist, loyal best friend and a promising business idea. But when the flashy Dienye twins join forces with an...

Nita’s (almost) perfect world has just been turned on its slightly ruffled but otherwise happy head. Now, not only does she have to endure living with Adesuwa, the world’s most overbearing sister, she has to go to school with her as well! Will Nita...