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Love on the Dotted Line
Original price was: ₦10,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.Love on the Dotted Line is a romance and family drama that tells the story of an unlikely pair, Ada Okeke and Wande Badejo. Ada, a newly widowed mother of four boys living in Port Harcourt, needs to provide for her sons, but has nothing to her name. After a decade with her cruel late husband, she has sworn never to remarry.
Wande Badejo, a.k.a “The Beast”, has conquered the business world but is powerless in the face of his children’s needs, especially his sickly daughter. Desperate, he needs to make one more acquisition: a woman with a “mother’s heart”. Wande proposes a marriage contract to Ada that both solves their problems. At first, Ada refuses, but circumstances force her to take up the offer.
After a very rocky start, Wande and Ada decide to work together for the good of the now blended families. Falling in love isn’t part of the contract, but it happens. The family is torn apart by a secret that comes to light, but fate brings them together again and they find that love can show up in the most unexpected circumstances, changing everyone around them.
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Even if the Stars Should Fall
Original price was: ₦10,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.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 love for Angie is rivalled only by her daughter’s. But the colony churns in turbulent times. A Federation between Rhodesia and Nyasaland has formed, and the African majority fear apartheid from the South will grip them. Forever.
Will Angie and Luka’s love survive the struggle?
Even if the Stars Should Fall is an intimate portrait of a family from an era since erased. A story about the triumph of love when caught in the crossfire of religion and politics, colonisation and freedom.
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Promises
Original price was: ₦10,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.Promises are like tilapia from Lake Victoria—glittering, evasive…slippery.
Promises charts the joys and tribulations of Ajuna and her fiancé, Kagaba, from warm Kampala to gloomy London. Young, highly skilled, and ambitious, both are caught up in financial hardship in their native Uganda. When Kagaba leaves for the UK as an economic immigrant, Ajuna’s happy, fulfilling relationship is under threat. And in the indifferent UK, Kagaba must battle the cold, and the cold shoulder of London.
Promises exposes the shadow world of illegal immigrants, and the creativity with which people in the legal margins rise to meet an inhumane system. But for both Kagaba and Ajuna, a glimmer of hope comes from unexpected quarters. Populated with an expansive array of vibrant characters, Goretti Kyomuhendo’s novel examines the promises we keep and those we break when relationships are profoundly tested by circumstances and twists of fate.
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Thread of Gold Beads
Original price was: ₦10,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhome, King Ghehanzin, 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. Just when Amelia begins to feel at home in her role as Princess, a well kept secret shatters the perfect life she knows.
Someone else within the palace also knows and does everything to bring the secret to light. A struggle between good and evil ensues causing Amelia to leave all that she knows and loves. She must flee Danhome with her brother, to south-western Nigeria. In a faraway land, she finds the love of a new family and God. The well-kept secret thought to have been dead and buried, resurrects with the flash of a thread of gold beads. Amelia must fight for her life and what is left of her soul.
Set during the French-Danhome war of the late 1890s in Benin Republic and early 1900s in Abeokuta and Lagos, South-Western Nigeria, Thread of Gold Beads is a delicate love story, and coming of age of a young girl. It clearly depicts the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversities.
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The Loud Silence Between Us
Original price was: ₦10,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.In the quiet spaces between tradition and truth, a young woman learns that silence, too, has a breaking point. 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 weight of tradition. As Na’ima balances her dream of becoming a nurse with her new life as a wife and mother, she begins to sense the cracks hidden beneath love’s surface. Behind closed doors, painful secrets unravel, and she is forced to confront the quiet violences that women are taught to endure.
Torn between loyalty and self-preservation, Na’ima must find her voice in a world that prefers her silent. Set against the vibrant and complex landscape of Northern Nigeria, The Loud Silence Between Us is a haunting and hopeful story of resilience, womanhood, and the courage it takes to turn pain into purpose.
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The Challengers
Price range: ₦12,750.00 through ₦17,000.00In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a group of young Nigerian entrepreneurs came together to form The VFD Group, a company that is poised to become a major player in Nigeria’s financial sector. The founders of this company, Nonso Okpala, Adeniyi Adenubi, Mobolaji Adewumi, Gbenga Omolokun, Azubike Emodi and others, recognised the need for a new kind of financial institution in Nigeria, one that was nimble, innovative, and responsive to the needs of a rapidly changing market. But that was not their only innovation: they decided to build this firm together.
The Challengers is about the personal stories of these founders. What makes their story different from that of the businesspeople of just a generation prior? How did this company not only survive having so many “owners” but thrive because of it? This, in an environment as individualistic as the Nigerian business space, was a previously-unheard-of occurrence. Eghosa Imasuen, author of Fine Boys, presents this tour de force of narrative nonfiction in a style uniquely his own.
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Instances of Exceptional Moments of Hunger
Original price was: ₦15,000.00.₦12,750.00Current price is: ₦12,750.00.From the Editor’s note:
“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 anthology contains nineteen stories, speaking across recurring human pressures: longing, hunger, faith, violence, tenderness, shame, desire, survival, memory. Hunger takes many forms here, and these writers show the restraint and courage to leave a wound open on the page and trust the reader to feel it.”
Contributors
Audrey Obuobisa-Darko | Basma Jaheen | Benjamin Cyril Arthur | Denise Westfield | Eduardo Quive | Evelyn Gachuchu | H. B. Asari | Israel Campos | Jason Kooper | Jazz Sanchez | Keletso Thobega | Lucky Grace Isingizwe | Mercy Chipukunya | Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba | Miora Rakotomalala | Nabunya Hadijah Sebunyah | Rigwell Addison Asiedu | Salma Elnour | Uzoma Ihejirika
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After the Guns Fell Silent
₦20,000.00After the Guns Fell Silent is a collection of personal stories from those who lived through the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Sparked by the editor’s realisation of how little is widely known about the conflict, the book seeks to preserve untold first-hand experiences of survival, loss, displacement, and resilience. It highlights the historical roots of the war—political tensions, ethnic divisions, and violence—that culminated in Biafra’s secession and the ensuing tragedy.
By sharing these memories, the book aims to fill gaps in collective knowledge, foster empathy across communities, and encourage Nigerians to confront the past in order to better understand the present and future.
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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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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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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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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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Skit Economy: How Nigeria’s Comedy Skit-Makers Are Redefining Africa’s Digital Content Landscape
₦12,000.00Skit Economy: How Nigeria’s Comedy Skit-Makers Are Redefining Africa’s Digital Content Landscape is a novel attempt to highlight the rather unsung impact of Nigeria’s ubiquitous comedy skit artistes and digital content creators. Citing primary data and results from a national study on comedy skit-making in Nigeria, the author provides valuable insights and first-hand accounts of how these practitioners, despite limited institutional support, are creating jobs, generating wealth, becoming social influencers, and contributing to economic growth.
Furthermore, it highlights the nexus between Africa’s bulging youth demography and social media uptake while presenting a nuanced classification of content creators, trends within the subsector, and implications for public policy and future research. In this book, readers will find exciting tidbits and quotes from some key practitioners, which have not been previously encapsulated in this manner. This book also provides a solid foundation for practitioners, policymakers, and scholars to appreciate the effervescence of Nigeria’s digital content creators.
“Let me congratulate Professor Bell Ihua on this important book. It is crucial we document our times and the evolution of the industry, and this book does all of that while also being packed with crucial data for the reader, for academia, and researchers to use when trying to profile this segment of the Nigerian entertainment industry.”
– Obi Asika, Director General/CEO, National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC)
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And the Lights Dimmed
₦7,500.00And the Lights Dimmed is a revelatory book about the causal events that distorted Nigeria’s electric power supply sector and agelong efforts.
It follows the author’s alter-ego from his childhood and early education in Benin City, Edo State, to the start of his career in the power supply industry from Ijebu-Ode and Sagamu in Ogun State to Yaba in Lagos. The author lays out the protagonist’s journey, challenges and successes in diagnosing technical and human problems in the power sector, and the rocky path of resolving issues for the present and the future.
Readers will enjoy learning about the early days of the development of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), up to the birth of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). They will also gain insight into the complexities of finding measures to structure and sustain the sector.
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Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts: A Columnist’s Insights on Nigeria
₦7,000.00Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts: A Columnist’s Insights on Nigeria is Niran Adedokun’s second captivating collection of essays following the 2020 release of Danfo Driver in All of Us. In this thought-provoking book, the author dissects the complex web of challenges that have long plagued this vibrant nation.
He explores the intricate relationship between ethnicity and politics, and how this dynamic has influenced the country’s socio-economic landscape. The essays unravel the layers of corruption that have infiltrated every aspect of Nigerian society and the devastating consequences they inflict on the country.
Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts offers readers a unique perspective on Nigeria’s past, present, and future. It takes an incisive look at the overt religiousness of Nigerians and why the country remains a cesspool of vices regardless. The collection is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Nigeria’s complex socio-political environment and how every citizen can contribute to making the country greater.
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An Unusual Biography: Wale Adenuga MFR
₦10,000.00In this compelling book, An Unusual Biography, Wale Adenuga MFR, the visionary founder of Wale Adenuga Productions (WAP) and the creative mastermind behind the iconic television shows “The Ajasco Family”, “Binta My Daughter”, and “The Super Story”, takes readers on an extraordinary journey through his inspirational life. The book shares a wealth of life lessons drawn from his childhood, adolescence, and the challenges and joys of building a family. The book also provides profound insights on the quest for discovering one’s passion, and indispensable business and management advice gleaned from his illustrious career at WAP. This riveting biography is a tapestry of a great man’s journey of self-discovery and triumph spanning the last four decades. It will leave every reader inspired, motivated, and brimming with a renewed zeal for life.
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How to Write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
₦7,000.00Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life.
This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Binyavanga’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation, ‘How to Write about Africa’.
Writing fearlessly across a range of topics – from politics to international aid, cultural heritage and redefining sexuality – this is a remarkable illustration of a writer at the height of his power.
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The Stolen Daughters of Chibok – Special Edition
₦30,000.00It has been ten years since the abduction of the Chibok school girls shocked the world. Read this special edition of The Stolen Daughters of Chibok, a collection of narratives by the families of the girls and some of the girls themselves.
In the middle of the night of April 14 to 15, 2014, terrorists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, fifty-seven girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing.
During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the Boko Haram insurgency, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF’s team managed to meet the relatives of 210 of them.
In the intervening years, 107 girls have made it home: four by Nigerian military/paramilitary intervention, and 103 by negotiated release. At the time of going to press 112 girls remain unaccounted for.
The Stolen Daughters of Chibok is a collection of written and pictorial narratives from the families of these stolen girls. It features the photography of awardwinner photographer Akintunde Akinleye. Essays and analyses from acclaimed experts append these personal histories to create a tribute to the girls, capturing their lives before the abduction and presenting the trauma of a community desperately learning to cope.
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This Is Not a Discoteke
₦5,000.00This Is Not a Discoteke is an enthralling book that explores the early years of a newly inducted young lawyer. We are artfully drawn into the inner workings of the law and see the humour beneath seemingly serious legal matters. As we follow the author on her journey as a legal practitioner, we see her come into her own as she grasps the essence and enormity of her profession. We see her acquire self-confidence, a strength of will, an acute power of observation, an ability to learn and a strong moral compass that guides her through the curveballs life often throws on such legal journeys. This book is a good read and filled with valuable lessons for lawyers and “bloody civilians” alike.
– Mrs Linda Edem Davies
Author and past treasurer, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Lagos Chapter
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Information Technology and Africa
Price range: ₦5,000.00 through ₦9,000.00“Mastery over New Technologies is a sine qua non for resetting Africa for great development strides.” – Dr Evans E. Woherem
In this instructive and far-reaching book, Dr Evans E. Woherem presents the technological antecedents of Africa in the context of the continent’s position as an unheralded pioneer in technology. The author explains Africa’s absence from previous industrial revolutions and advocates for the continent’s advantage in harnessing the fourth industrial revolution (4IR).
The book’s focus on policies—government and nongovernmental—and other interventions that can contribute to growth in Africa will be of great use to students and policy makers alike. It also provides an understanding of the exponential technologies and what organisations, universities, countries, and individuals can do to master these technologies for the continent’s development.
“What Dr Woherem has created is a blueprint for how Africa can move forward. But it’s also a book for anyone from any country seeking a deeper understanding of how the technologies propelling us into the future can be systematically harnessed and implemented.” – Robin Raskin, Founder, The Virtual Events Group (VEG)
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The Stolen Daughters of Chibok
Price range: ₦4,500.00 through ₦7,500.00In the middle of the night of April 14 to 15, 2014, terrorists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria. Over the following days, fifty-seven girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing.
During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the Boko Haram insurgency, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF’s team managed to meet the relatives of 210 of them.
In the intervening years, 107 girls have made it home: four by Nigerian military/paramilitary intervention, and 103 by negotiated release. At the time of going to press 112 girls remain unaccounted for.
The Stolen Daughters of Chibok is a collection of written and pictorial narratives from the families of these stolen girls. It features the photography of awardwinner photographer Akintunde Akinleye. Essays and analyses from acclaimed experts append these personal histories to create a tribute to the girls, capturing their lives before the abduction and presenting the trauma of a community desperately learning to cope.
