Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded
by school friends and family in Ibadan. There is Eniayo,
her adoring little sister—for whose sake their middle-class
parents fight stigmatising superstition—and a large extended
family of cousins and aunts who sometimes make Morayo’s
home the..
Efe Paul Azino’s spoken word performances have
received critical acclaim from listeners over the years.
This book is therefore an expected result of a heightened
expectation from many of his fans. For Broken Men Who
Cross Often, is a refreshing and brilliant bond of the written
and the oral, as..
The Ilesanmi twins are back at their grandparents’ house for Christmas, and it doesn’t take long for another mystery to find them. This time, it involves their grandmother’s prized necklace. Stolen during her birthday party, the list of suspects is daunting, and the twins and their cousins might jus..
Kita loves to kick up dust along the red dusty road. She doesn’t listen when her mama warns her not to do this.One day, she kicks up so much red dust she awakens the Dust Eater. Kita is scared. Can anybody save her?..
In these wide-ranging stories, Barrett roams the streets with people from all stations of life. A minor policeman, full of the authority and corruption of his uniform, beats his wife. A family’s fortunes fall from love and wealth to infidelity and poverty as poor choices unfurl over three generation..
The Ilesanmi children are on holidays at their grandparents’ house in Ibadan, until their grandfather has to travel to Ilorin urgently. Along with their neighbour, Nosa, they are sent to spend one week in the care of their grandmother’s aunt, 79-year-old Mama Onireke of Ebenezer Lodge.But the old ma..
Esi is a feisty half-Nigerian girl growing up in Ghana, with occasional visits to her maternal family in Lagos. When her curiosity about her body leads to a ginger-in-the-vagina punishment from her stepmother, Esi begins to question the hypocrisy of the adults around her and the restrictions they pl..
Socially awkward and from the wrong side of the tacks, all Sula wants is to finish her time at the elite St.Matthews School with good grades and without being noticed. But everything changes when she is paired with Ja, the darling of the school as a lab partner. ..
In the international market, they call it sweet crude – low-sulphur crude oil. It is targeted by oil thieves in the Niger Delta, who siphon it from the pipelines and sell to the highest bidder. This brutal black market is a web connecting rich barons in gleaming cities to savage militants in the cre..
Having inherited a house in Surulere from his father, and having waited ten years for the terms of the inheritance to be fulfilled, Adewale Maja - pearce is eager to take possession of his house. He offers the tenants a one-year-rent-free break to allow them search for other accommoda..
Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain. The Maestro, a depressed, quixotic character, sinks out of the real world into the fantastic world of literature. The Magistrate tries to create new memori..
The man in the SUV fired the rocket directly at their van and the explosion lit up the park. Then the SUV made a 180-degree turn and took off. Patrick emptied his gun clip and shattered the rear windshield, but the car didn’t slow down and was soon out of sight. He flung his gun in the direction the..