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Chop Chop
₦40,000.00Celebrate 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 cuisine. Think restorative Chicken Pepper Soup, Jollof Rice studded with tomatoes, Puff Puff fried until golden and crispy, smoky and spiced Beef Sūya̱ skewers, ̀Ẹgúsí Soup rich with greens and served with soft, unleavened doughs to soak it all up. Plus sauces, puddings, salads, fritters, sweets, and drinks. From its 100 regional recipes to ingredient profiles, special techniques, notes on historical and cultural contexts, and stunning photographs throughout, Chop Chop is the definitive guide to the world of Nigerian cooking.
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The Adichie Collection
₦33,500.00Narrative Landscape Press presents the writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in a package of 7 books:The novels: Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and AmericanahThe short story collection: The Thing Around Your NeckThe Essays: We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele and Notes on Grief.These new editions were designed in collaboration with Vlisco, the wax print textile company. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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How Depression Saved My Life
₦15,000.00In 2016, Chude Jideonwo quit his job as CEO of one of Nigeria’s top PR firms to find a new mission. He soon faced clinical depression and considered suicide.
During this period, he was inspired by a conversation between Oprah Winfrey and Brené Brown on Super Soul Sunday. This pivotal moment led him to become the host of the viral talk show #WithChude, a director of award-winning films, and the founder of withchude.com, a platform telling stories from Africa that promote mental, emotional and spiritual health.
People often ask him why individuals share deep secrets on his channel and how he inspires such openness. Now, he is sharing his own story of healing and transforming suffering into growth and joy.
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Dream Count
Price range: ₦8,000.00 through ₦15,000.00A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling 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 America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
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A Decade At The Bar
₦15,000.00Ten years after being called to the Nigerian Bar, a photo collection motivated 35 lawyers to reflect on their Law School experience, sharing what their lives and legal careers have become, and the other paths they have taken.
A Decade at the Bar is an anthology of professional experiences showing perhaps the most crucial years of the lawyer’s journey: the transition from getting an education to entering practice. It is a guide for law students and lawyers, a showcase of the many ways that they can serve their country and fulfill their dreams. -
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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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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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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 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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This Motherless Land
₦10,000.00This 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 and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, conformist Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them.
Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs, their friendship is torn apart.Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition. Can they escape their legacy?
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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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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? – Trade Paperback Edition
₦10,000.00“A story about friendship, family, romance and the most important quest of all –
loving and accepting yourself.” – Lauren Ho
Yinka wants to find love. Her problem? Her mum wants to find it for her.
She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom. Plus thereʼs her preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum sheʼs sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that sheʼs thirty-one and doesnʼt believe in sex before marriage might be a bit of an obstacle too….
So when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences ʻOperation Find A Date for Rachelʼs Weddingʼ. Armed with a totally flawless, incredibly specific plan, will Yinka find herself a huzband? What if the thing she really needs to find is herself?
“A total joy to read . . . Yinka is the most lovable character Iʼve come across in a long time.” – Beth OʼLeary
“A beautiful, big-hearted story about friendship, family and love.” – Emiko Jean
“Your bookshelf needs this . . . full of heart.” – Jendella Benson
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Americanah: Tenth Anniversary Edition
₦10,000.00This special edition of the groundbreaking novel by internationally acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie commemorates a decade of literary excellence and cultural impact, reaffirming Americanah’s place as a modern classic. Featuring a new introduction from the author, this edition is beautifully presented, designed to captivate both loyal fans and new readers alike.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post 9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalised world.
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Wahala -Trade Paperback Edition
₦10,000.00Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he’s just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends.
Boo has everything Ronke wants—a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she’s frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be.
Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle. No one knows she’s crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her “urban vibe.” Her husband thinks they’re trying for a baby. She’s not.
When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into the group, it seems at first she’s bringing out the best in each woman. (She gets Simi an interview in Shanghai! Goes jogging with Boo!) But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows, and Ronke, Simi and Boo’s close friendship begins to crack.
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A Shred Of Fear
₦10,000.00Fifty years after the Biafran War ended in 1970, and as memories of the war fade and cultural, religious and tribal divisions rear their heads, Uche Nwokedi’s childhood memories of that time are presented in this memoir. Aged seven when the war began, he and his family would spend the next three years as refugees in their own country. A Shred of Fear brings dramatic events vividly to life. Moments of fear, sadness, tragedy, and family solidarity are told with pathos and humour. More than a war story, this compelling narrative shines a fearless light on a dark period.
Powerful and endearing. Uche Nwokedi’s A Shred of Fear is an open invitation to consider his boyhood memories of the Biafran War, told from his perspective as a man who also bore witness to its antecedents and aftermath. This is an inspiring book that is sure to mend bridges.
– Sefi Atta, Author, Everything Good Will Come
As one who participated fully in the Biafra War, A Shred of Fear is a powerful and vivid factual recollection of events that defined the war for the author. Written with such brilliant simplicity, one is taken on a journey of the changes in life in a time of war by the author. A must read. Highly recommended!
– Chief Arthur Mbanefo FCA, MFR, CON, Commissioner/Roving Ambassador in Biafra (1967-1970); Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1999-2003)
A Shred of Fear is a beautifully evocative work that reveals the inimitable but understated role of the many women who confronted the war-within a war marked by hunger, agony and death. Rich in style and language, and full of humour, Uche Nwokedi’s writing is an emotionally wrenching, cross-over read.
– Yinka Olatunbosun, Journalist
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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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Now, Not Never
₦8,000.00Are you tired of delaying your dreams?
Procrastination isn’t just a bad habit. It is a silent assassin that quietly sabotages your goals, confidence, and future. But what if the real problem isn’t your time management but your mind management?
In Now, Not Never!: Defeat the Silent Assassin of Procrastination and Rewire Your Brain for Success, transformational coach and neuroscience-based practitioner, Dr Mirian Kene Omalu, takes you deep into the brain’s inner wiring, exposing the subconscious blockers that keep you stuck in cycles of delay, doubt, and defeat.
Through her powerful, proven MindForm MethodTM, you will harness the science of neuroplasticity to reshape your thoughts, override fear, and silence excuses ‒ once and for all. You will learn how to reprogramme your subconscious mind through guided visualisation, emotional anchoring, and affirmation techniques rooted in cutting-edge brain research.
This is not just a book. It is a wake-up call. A blueprint. A transformation journey.
If you are ready to shift from hesitation to momentum, from fear to clarity, and from scattered effort to identity-based action, then the time is Now. Not never.
Walk boldly into your potential. Become the architect of your time, your habits, your success, and your future.
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Contraband Bodies
₦8,000.00Contraband 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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The Re-Write
₦8,000.00Temi 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 a book deal that would solve all her problems. But publishers keep passing on her novel and bills still have to be paid. So, when the opportunity to ghostwrite a celebrity memoir arises, Temi accepts.
And, of course, the celebrity turns out to be Wale…
Will Temi and Wale repeat the patterns of their past? Or can they write a whole new story?
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Love, Lagos & Other Complications: A Lagos Love Story
₦8,000.00Ṣemilore “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 begins to form.
As Ṣemi and Lashe navigate their growing feelings, they must confront more than just their clashing first impressions. Family expectations, personal traumas and cultural divides threaten to stand in their way. But in the vibrant chaos of Lagos, love can be as surprising as it is complicated.
Can Ṣemi and Lashe find common ground in their differences, or will their love story be another dream left unfulfilled?
Love, Lagos & Other Complications is Zainab Uche Imam’s debut novel.
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
₦8,000.00A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining “elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit” (Los Angeles Times).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, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists, who also happens to be a global literary giant.
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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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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.
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Making Africa Work
₦7,500.00Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile devices.
Properly harnessed and planned for, this is a tremendously positive force for change. Without economic growth and jobs, it could prove a political and social catastrophe. Old systems of patronage and muddling through will no longer work because of these population increases. Instead, if leaders want to continue in power, they will have to promote economic growth in a more dynamic manner.
Making Africa Work is a first-hand account and handbook of how to ensure growth beyond commodities and create jobs in the continent.
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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 Smoke That Thunders
₦7,000.00In this mesmerising fantasy rooted in Urhobo and West African folklore, sixteen-year-old Naborhi longs for a life away from her small, traditional clan in Kokori. But as her rite of passage approaches and she is betrothed to an arrogant young man, Naborhi feels her dreams slipping away from her.
Then Naborhi becomes bonded to a mysterious animal and begins having harrowing visions of a kidnapped boy. She soon meets Atai, the son of an Oracle from a rival queendom, and learns that she is being guided by the gods. She and Atai, along with Naborhi’s eager-for-adventure cousin, Tamunor, set off across the continent to rescue the mysterious boy. But when they find him—and find out his true identity—Naborhi realises there is more than just her freedom at stake: she must stop a war that has already been set in motion.
With lush, unique worldbuilding and a dynamic cast of characters, The Smoke That Thunders is a gripping story of political intrigue, fierce love, and what it means to be free.
“An ideal story for anyone who’s longed for more than what the world tells them they can be. An enticing read.” — Kirkus Reviews
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I For Don Blow but I Too Dey Press Phone
₦7,000.00It was 1996 in Nigeria; the year of the Atlanta Olympic gold, the year of political assassinations and the democratic struggle. It was also the year a little boy’s childhood took a dramatic turn when he lost his hearing and was immediately initiated into the chaos of being a disabled child in a lower-middle class community.
Recounting his experiences as a kid slipping from the top of the class to the bottom, going through a damaging sibling rivalry with his older brother, and having to get used to surrendering his body to strange men and women whose magic only marked his body and scarred his mind, I For Don Blow but I Too Dey Press Phone is a story of loss, trauma, an endless journey towards self-rediscovery and the violence it takes to live with dignity in a country that doesn’t see or hear people like him.
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A Kind of Madness
₦7,000.00A 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 young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbours when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium—though when the offer fails to materialise, that envy threatens to turn vicious, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest, struggling to come to terms with her mother’s mental illness.
In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo’s A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question: why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness?
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House Woman
₦7,000.00When 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. But Ikemefuna soon discovers what it actually means to live with her in-laws. Demands for a grandson grow urgent as her every move comes under scrutiny. As Ikemefuna finds there’s no way out, her new husband grapples with the influence of his parents against his own increasing affection for her.
As family secrets boil to the surface, Ikemefuna must decide how to scrape herself out of an impossibly sticky situation: a marriage succumbing to generational cycles of pain and silence. In the end, she may be carrying the greatest secret of all.
An unforgettably delicious thriller, House Woman is about a woman trapped in a dangerous web of conflicting desires, melting in the Texas heat.
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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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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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Bamboozled by Jesus
₦7,000.00Emmy-nominated actress and comic Yvonne Orji candidly yet humorously shares the twists and turns that eventually led her to success, while seamlessly interweaving a modern-day Biblical blueprint to inspire and empower readers to live their best lives.
Yvonne Orji has never shied away from being unapologetically herself, and that includes being outspoken about her faith. Known for interpreting Biblical stories and metaphors to fit current times, her humorous and accessible approach to faith leaves even non-believers inspired and wanting more.
The way Yvonne sees it, God is a sovereign prankster, punkin’ folks long before Ashton Kutcher made it cool. When she meditates on her own life—complete with unforeseen blessings and unanticipated roadblocks—she realizes it’s one big testimony to how God tricked her into living out her wildest dreams. And she wants us to join in on getting bamboozled. This is not a self-help book—it’s a GET YOURS book!
In Bamboozled by Jesus, a frank and fresh advice book, Orji takes readers on a journey through twenty-four life lessons, gleaned from her own experiences and her favorite source of inspiration: the Bible. But this ain’t your mama’s Bible study. Yvonne infuses wit and heart in sharing pointers like why the way up is sometimes down, and how fear is synonymous to food poisoning. Her joyful, confident approach to God will inspire everyone to catapult themselves out of the mundane and into the magnificent.
With bold authenticity and practical relatability, Orji is exactly the kind of cultural leader we need in these chaotic times. Her journey of getting bamboozled by Jesus paints a powerful picture of what it means to say “yes” to a life you never could’ve imagined—if it wasn’t your own.
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The Stars Are Ageless
₦7,000.00A young woman who chooses love. A daughter who must repay her mother’s sacrifices. A filmmaker accused of stealing her own creation. A woman held up by faith, family and true friendship when her world is rocked to its very foundation. Omoni Oboli has played as many roles in life as she has on the big screen. But a movie ends and life goes on. The Stars are Ageless presents the true story of the woman hailed as “The Box Office Queen” of Nigerian cinema.
These life experiences shaped Omoni into who she is, and promise that we will see much more from her.
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Americanah
₦7,000.00As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post 9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.
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Half Of A Yellow Sun
₦7,000.00Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is enthralled to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran war engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of those things.
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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.
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The Little Regent
₦6,000.00After the king of a West African village dies, his eight-year-old daughter Abioye is made the temporary ruler, or regent, until a new king is chosen. The chiefs scoff at this decision – a little girl can’t be regent! Even Abioye herself doubts whether she’s up to the task. But her late father’s words of wisdom comfort and guide her: Those who will rule must first learn to serve.
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How to Make a Space Masquerade
₦6,000.00How 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 virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human love child resulting from a one- night stand with a robot. The twelve stories in this collection stretch the imagination and demand a review of our notions of self-discovery, human connection and traditions.
“Mazi packs a big punch in these stories about the future, conjuring beautiful images with a writing style that will keep you reading…. Mazi is sure a skillful storyteller.” – Dilman Dila, Author, A Killing in the Sun
“From immersive world-building to a keen sensitivity to human conditions, and the seamless blend of futuristic sci-fi with African lore and myths, How to Make a Space Masquerade is an outstanding collection and a worthy first book.” – Iquo DianaAbasi, Author, Èfó Rírò & Other Stories
“A masterful collection showcasing the very best aspects of Africanfuturism. Nwonwu has crafted thought-provoking pieces which demand reflection from the reader. Excellent!” – Tendai Huchu, Author, The Hairdresser of Harare
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A-Files: Eyeshadow and Lipgloss
₦6,000.00Eyeshadow and Lipgloss is the second book in the A-Files series following sisters, Nita and Adesuwa.
Things are looking up for Nita – brilliant student columnist, superlative best friend and a brand new business idea. Then the flashy Dienye twins team up an old enemy and infuriating older sister – Adesuwa. The battle for ‘best business girl ever!’ begins. Amid a series of pranks, acts of mischief and sabotage, Nita fights her way back through a haze of powder, glitter and shimmer blush. She is confronted with a shocking revelation that forces her to question everything she had thought to be true.
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God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
₦6,000.00In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival of a daring new voice in fiction.
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 and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity?
“The artistic success of this book is a testament to an incoming generation of African writers, and in time will serve as an anchor of motivation.” – Open Country Magazine
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Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
₦6,000.00A poetic, tender tribute to the simple joys of family life.
Chino’s mama wears a sleeping scarf at night, to keep her hair all soft and nice. One day, when Mama is leaving for work, she lets Chino play with the scarf – and so begins a magical day of imagination and adventure! Running with the scarf, Chino weaves together the little moments of home life into a glorious celebration of love passed down through generations, as well as the power of the mother-daughter relationship, and the gentle joys that build a perfect day.
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Saro
₦6,000.00On a visit to the coast of Marina, Lagos, Siwoolu and his young family are lured by a traitor to a grand merchant ship where they are captured by slave holders masquerading as traders. On the way to the new world, they are rescued by abolitionists on a British naval ship, and sent to Freetown, a haven for freed slaves.
They settle in their new home, grow their family and become successful merchants, trading goods between Freetown and Eko. Dotunu, Siwoolu’s wife, falls in love with another man and is caught in a love triangle. But their lives are upended again when they hear that the kingdom has selected the traitor as king. Siwoolu, content with his new life, yet fearful of a curse that lurks in the shadows, refuses to return, but Dotunu is determined to keep the traitor from the throne. She turns to their son, Oșolu, who is running from his own demons, to seize the throne that is rightfully theirs.
SARO is a multigenerational tale of betrayal and restitution, love and war, inspired by true events that will take the reader from the rocky terrain of Abeokuta and burgeoning city of Lagos to the lion mountains of Freetown and Hastings of Sierra Leone from the 1830s to the 1850s.
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A Good Name
₦6,000.00Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn’t one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and trains as a nurse. Buffeted by a series of disillusions, the couple stagger through a turbulent marriage until Zina decides to change the rules of engagement.
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Sankofa
₦6,000.00Masterful 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.
Anna is at a stage of her life when she is beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead.
Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president—some would say dictator—of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive…
When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. Like the metaphorical bird that gives the novel its name, Sankofa expresses the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present to address universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family’s hidden roots.
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Truth is a Flightless Bird
₦6,000.00Nice—real name, Theresa—has just arrived Nairobi airport where she will be picked up by her old friend, Duncan, an American pastor for a small evangelical denomination. Duncan cannot know that Nice is fleeing her life choices, and her UN job in Mogadishu. She believes she is too innocent-looking, too nice, for anyone to suspect that she is muling drugs.
But Nice has not contended with her drug-dealer Somali boyfriend having an associate in the Kenya Police Service. Duncan’s car crashes on the way back from the airport.
Duncan awakes after the car crash, to find himself captive to the sociopathic policeman, Hinga, and the charmingly amoral Ciru. Nice is gone. Plucked from his expat bubble, Duncan must plunge into the moral complexities of the under-city to get Nice back. But how deep can Duncan go, without destroying his faith, and himself?
