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The Gift: The Story I Was Once too Afraid to Tell
Price range: ₦15,000.00 through ₦25,000.00“A powerful, courageous memoir—both deeply personal and universally human.”
On the eve of his 50th birthday, Dr Anderson Uvie-Emegbo offers the world The Gift, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir chronicling a life of silence, struggle, and ultimately, self-reclamation.
Born in Warri, an oil-rich city in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, Anderson’s story traverses continents and contradictions—from a childhood marked by pain and resilience to medical school, corporate boardrooms, global classrooms, and profound personal turning points.
Told with brutal honesty, elegant prose, and remarkable vulnerability, The Gift is more than a memoir. It is an offering—of clarity, courage, and the power of voice. With each chapter, Anderson invites readers to walk through fear, embrace transformation, and discover that even our deepest wounds can become the soil from which purpose grows.
Whether you are a leader, healer, survivor, or seeker, this book will meet you where you are, and challenge you to become who you were always meant to be.
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Building A New Africa
Price range: ₦12,000.00 through ₦20,000.00In Building a New Africa, the continent’s developmental challenges are confronted head-on, offering a bold and optimistic blueprint for a prosperous future. This insightful and compelling book argues that Africa’s rich history, human potential, and natural resources are enough to transform it from a region mired in poverty and underdevelopment into a global leader. The key, however, lies in effective leadership, strong governance, and a collective will for change.
With 20 incisive chapters, the book explores Africa’s past, present, and future, analysing the effects of colonialism, the need for infrastructure and industrialisation, and the critical role of education, entrepreneurship, and technology. Each chapter provides a clear path forward, offering solutions for overcoming the political, economic, and social obstacles that have long hindered the continent’s progress.
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Riding The Storm
Price range: ₦12,000.00 through ₦20,000.00“The success of Africa’s COVID-19 response should not have surprised the world. The people of Africa have demonstrated time and again, their resilience and ability to work together to overcome even the greatest challenge.”
– President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Riding the Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic chronicles Africa’s resilience and determination during a borderless crisis. Through the actions of heroes like H.E Cyril Ramaphosa, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, Dr Vera Songwe, Dr John Nkengasong, and Professor Benedict Oramah, a narrative of leadership, duty and sacrifices emerges. From securing vaccines to complex negotiations, this book tells of the journey to an outcome that surprised the world. In this book, the author presents the
facts in an illustrative manner that highlights African innovation, competence and spirit.
“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”
– African Proverb
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The Selectorate: When Judges Topple The People
Price range: ₦15,000.00 through ₦20,000.00Across 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 to the courts. In some cases, this influence has extended beyond the courtroom, creating a system where a small, connected elite decides leadership under the cover of legal process.
In The Selectorate, Chidi Odinkalu examines how this shift took root, with Nigeria’s judiciary playing a leading role in setting the precedent. Drawing on legal insight and first-hand experience, he unpacks the consequences of this quiet transformation and what it means for both judicial independence and the future of democracy in Africa.
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Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40
₦15,000.00Unbound, an anthology of poems, gives voice to a generation that has been culturally, socially and politically underrepresented. But the poets now tell their stories, declaring: “We are here. Our norms and values are valid.”
The target audience for this anthology is anyone, regardless of geographical location and social identity or stratum, who is interested in Nigerian lives and experiences – whether at home or in the diaspora – as they manifest in elegant poetry.
Read in a chain, the poems sound like the everyday voices around us: the maturing teenager who discovers another shape to love, the father’s empathic response to the son’s youthful inquisitions, voices from war-torn places, people expressing joy and grief and angst and fortitude in a dystopic postcolonial state.
“Uncommonly conceived and carefully curated, this anthology sparkles with nuggets of poignant cogitation and splendid phrasing…” – Niyi Osundare, author of eighteen books of poetry, including The Eye of the Earth.
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Cursed Daughters
Price range: ₦10,000.00 through ₦15,000.00NO 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 uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family’s strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history.
Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?
“A triumph: bold, searing, and utterly original. From the first page, it grips with an electric pulse…. Impossible to put down.” —ABI DARÉ, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice
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Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business by Femi Otedola
Price range: ₦8,000.00 through ₦15,000.00“When Femi Otedola, one of Nigeria’s and Africa’s most successful entrepreneurs, decides to capture his experiences in the form of this book, it is important! As the author himself notes, there are very few books by successful African business leaders documenting their journey and sharing lessons learned for posterity, but in particular for a younger generation.” – NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, Director General, World Trade Organization (from the Preface)
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 ambition, hard work, successes, challenges and setbacks – from making a billion, to losing a billion to making it back again and, as one of Africa’s richest men, settling into a philanthropic role to give back to the continent.
Otedola’s role as disruptor in his country’s oil industry transformed Forte Oil Plc into one of the highest performing companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious National Honour of “Commander of the Order of the Niger – CON” in recognition of his contributions to the growth of Nigeria’s economy and for his philanthropy. He was appointed a vice-president of Save the Children, the UK-based charity in 2021, and he is the chancellor at Augustine University, Epe.
Making It Big is a masterclass in attaining and maintaining a positive mindset and a reminder that it is possible to defy the odds, no matter how stacked they are against you. Packed with personal philosophies and business lessons, this is a book of hope, backed up by solutions, written to inspire entrepreneurs in Africa and from everywhere.
“The book is a must-read for all business leaders, policy makers and young people venturing into the world of entrepreneurship and business.” – DR. AKINWUMI A. ADESINA, President, African Development Bank Group
“As someone who came from an entrepreneurial family myself […] I vividly relate with this enriching account, that effectively unpacks useful insights for surmounting business hurdles, as well as connecting many corporate dots for budding entrepreneurs. This is a highly recommended read for anyone who aspires to be successful in a challenging environment.” – ALIKO DANGOTE, GCON, President/CE, Dangote Group
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The God of Good Looks
₦10,000.00Getting 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 minister, ending her journalism career before it has even started.
All but unemployable, she is astonished when tyrannical makeup artist Obadiah Cortland, Trinidad’s legendary ‘God of Good Looks’, hires her as his new assistant.
At first, Bianca can’t stand her fierce new boss – and he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when her ex threatens both their futures, and working together becomes their last resort, she begins to glimpse another Obadiah beneath the façade he’s so carefully cultivated.“A glittering will-they-won’t-they Bridget Jones reboot” – Nikki May, author of Wahala
“Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation” – Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
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In Our Own Ways
₦10,000.00After 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 right pedigree and connections, Fadaka and Senami are living an enviable life.
However, cracks begin to appear in their marriage when they struggle to get pregnant. Family and the secrets behind the eventual conception threaten to destroy them. The joy from the arrival of the long-awaited child is short-lived as their marriage crumbles.
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.
“…a triumph of unexpected sisterly bonds over patriarchy.” – Zukiswa Wanner, Author, London Cape Town Joburg
“…the author maintains a delicate balance between red-hot tension and tender moments.” – Martin Egblewogbe, Co-founder, Writers Project of Ghana
“This disturbing story will stay with you for a long time.” – Toni Kan, Author, The Carnivorous City
“…an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, poverty and the quest for significance, and the resilience of a mother’s spirit.” – Niran Adedokun, Author, The Danfo Driver in All of Us
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Contraband Bodies
Original price was: ₦8,000.00.₦6,800.00Current price is: ₦6,800.00.Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines
in this personal record of diaspora and a country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa and beyond.
Salawu meditates on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal, confronting new forms of digital kinship. He creates a unique catalogue of images that map the migratory routes from the village to the city, within continental Africa, and across different diasporic landscapes. He builds on a solid canon of migration and mobility in African poetry and brings forward a powerful, new, diasporic poetic voice.
“Contraband Bodies is a poetry of movement from place to place, a poetry of landscapes, unique experiences, memories, and an enchanting assemblage of what is most inspiring. … Salawu may be young, but his poetry stands very favourably beside the best in all African poetry.” — Tanure Ojaide, writer and distinguished professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
“For the African in Canada, exile is not just distance but a quiet undoing of self — and in Contraband Bodies, Jide Salawu gives voice to that dissonance with taut, lyrical precision, crafting poems that demand to be seen, felt, and remembered.” — Nick Makoha, poet and playwright
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Mayowa and the Sea of Words
₦8,000.00Jump feet first into a world of wonder.
Ten-year-old Mayowa has always thought that her Grandpa Edward, who dyes his beard emerald green and jumps on books in private, is rather eccentric. Until one day she jumps on a book for herself – and uncovers a huge family secret.
Mayowa is a logosalter.
Logosalters can harness the emotions inside a book and channel them directly into the world: courage … love … tolerance … fear … hatred … betrayal …
But Mayowa and Grandpa Edward aren’t the only logosalters in the world. And not everybody wants to use this power for good.
Brimming with heart, Mayowa and the Sea of Words is the first book in a spellbinding new trilogy. Perfect for everyone who knows the true power of a good book.
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The Termite Colony
₦8,000.00Set 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 are sent to investigate a cholera outbreak in Araba, a community some distance from Abuja. There, they learn of the nearby Golden Valley, a sugar plantation whose managers recruit soldiers to massacre the Araba people with the intent of taking over more Araba land.
In the search for the rogue officers who ordered the genocide, Uche, Itohan and Kanayo meet Colonel Idris Abubakar, a brave and honest military officer who has been working for reforms in the corrupt Nigerian Army. Kanayo convinces Colonel Abubakar to mount a coup d’état to displace the Nigeria People’s Congress. Uche is opposed to another round of military rule. Itohan is in two minds. The coup is foiled, but there are tragic consequences.
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A Meal Is a Meal
₦8,000.00A 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 caterer is offended by her sisterhood’s depreciation of her culinary craft. She takes her revenge on them, sabotaging their potluck by serving jollof rice concocted in less than hygienic means.
Highlighting the varied myths, beliefs, superstitions and notions that surround the Nigerian culinary culture, A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
“A Meal Is a Meal is a meal indeed. It’s a delicious serving of both grounded and transcendental stories that will leave you hungry for more.” —Erhu Kome, author, The Smoke That Thunders
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What Matters to Me Now
₦7,000.00What do you still believe after all you’ve lost, endured, and become?
The companion to his acclaimed memoir, The Gift, What Matters to Me Now offers fifty reflections that rose from the silence after Dr. Anderson Uvie-Emegbo’s story was told.
Drawn from the raw, beautiful places of a life lived fully—from nearly being aborted to building companies, from breaking under pressure to rising with purpose—each reflection carries wisdom about what remains true when the applause fades and the masks fall.
This is an intimate conversation—a collection of truths about identity, healing, courage, becoming, and legacy. These pages speak to anyone carrying unspoken stories, rebuilding after betrayal, or wondering if their story still matters.
Organised under five themes, each reflection begins with a message, followed by self-inquiry questions and a guiding affirmation—creating space for your own journey of reckoning and renewal.
Whether you are healing from childhood wounds, reclaiming your voice, or learning to lead with integrity, this book offers both mirror and map.
Raw yet tender, challenging yet hopeful, What Matters to Me Now reminds us: your voice matters. Your healing matters. Your becoming matters.
The whisper within holds an answer. This book helps you hear it.
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BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories
₦6,000.00BackHomeAbroad 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.
In “Outbreak at the Renaissance”, a woman attributes her marital troubles to the physical scar she got from escaping death in Sierra Leone’s civil war. “Okonkwo’s Revenge” follows two characters from Things Fall Apart as they break free of the limits of Chinua Achebe’s book. In “Foreign Aid”, a man returns to Sierra Leone after twenty years to find that he is a stranger in his homeland. Finally, border towns fighting over a disputed piece of land are united by a hermaphrodite in “Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Must Stand Beside It”.
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.
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Moonbeam
₦6,000.00Moonbeam 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 to explore narratives that are real and relatable.
From the poignant to the bizarre, the reflective to the heartwrenching, each story captures a distinct shade of the human experience. There are no easy answers here, no moral conclusions or tidy resolutions. Instead, Moonbeam offers a vivid, unflinching gaze into life as it is: beautiful, broken, bewildering.
Written with honesty, humour and style, Moonbeam is a memorable anthology that shows us the many shades of what it means to be human.
Contributors:
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim | Adeniyi Kunnu | Akeem Lasisi | Anote Ajeluorou | Evelyn Osagie | Gregory-Page Nwakunor | Henry Akubuiro | Jahman Anikulapo | Molara Wood | Nehru Odeh | Okechukwu Uwaezuoke | Sam Omatseye | Sumaila Umaisha | Terh Agbedeh | Toni Kan
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Flying Through Water
₦6,000.00“By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me, knowing that I have gone to make a better life for us all.”
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.
