Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Afiuli. A mother abandons her child in search of personal freedom. A wife joins her husband, only to be met with news that threatens their relationship. This richly imagined collage of interconnected stories follows Prosperous and Agu, and the motley community of Nigerian ex-pats who ..

Love expression and promotion quests turn to death wishes for a lecturer in an atmosphere of envy, hate, deception, and academic and libidinous conflicts.Adeoye plans to wed Oyinda, but he must overcome the temptation posed by Nkechi, who crushes on him and tackle the cultist who also wants Oyinda as his wife. In the process, he gets implicated in the rape and murder of Oyinda’s flatmate Jumai. A ..

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new found condition, Furo is amazed to find the dead ends of his life wondrously open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical tra..

On the eve of Valentine's Day, Oghogho 'Gigi' Dempster wore her heart on the sleeve. At almost thirty-one, she was single and ready to mingle after nearly two years of relegating her love-life to the curb in favour of growing her fledgling social media company. Her beautiful best friend Alana was newly pregnant for the love of her life, Benjamin Halal, and her sister Efemena 'Fifi' was married to ..

This book tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Taiye and Kehinde. Their mother, Kamabirinachi is an Ogbanje who wonders in her unnatural choice to stay alive to love her human family was the best decision. Kehinde experiences a devastating childhood trauma that fractures the family. As soon as she is of age, she moves away and cuts all contact with her twin sister and mother. Alone in Mon..

Opening with the puzzled and innocent view of a boy looking in on the adult world from outside, this collection follows the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined by experiences of humiliation, compromise and a failure to communicate, in a process that reflects a wider disillusionment and decline in post-independence Zimb..

Tayo Dabi , rising star at the only detective agency in Sonowea State, Nigeria, loves her job and believes she is good at it. Her confidence is, however, rocked when investigates the murder of a successful and wealthy contractor. Her encounters with the beautiful grieving widow and the handsome brother of the murder victim leave her intrigued. Distractions by several other cases that showcase the ..

WHEN FEAR SILENCES A NATION, ONE MAN MUST SPEAK THF, TRUTH THE SOVIET UNION, 1953 Stalin's iron grip is at its tightest, enforced by the Ministry of State Security — a secret police force whose brutality is no secret at all. Under its regime, people are commanded to believe that crime simply does not exist. But when the body of a young boy is discovered on train tracks in Moscow, Officer..

THEY KILLED MY MOTHER. THEY TOOK OUR MAGIC. THEY TRIED TO BURY US. NOW WE RISE. ..

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After decades of jousting with the powers that be and living to tell the tale, Wole Soyinka has returned to his roots: story-telling. And though it's been nearly 40 years after his last work of prose fiction, Wole Soyinka proves with this novel that he has lost none of his story-telling chops! A narrative tour de force, this novel has got everything - friendship and betrayal; faith and treachery; ..

On her deathbed, Leona seeks forgiveness by confessional. She had killed her father-in-law. Dastardly as the crime is, it is an act of love, loyalty, disobedience and perceived fairness. How did she get here, where she, a successful model is forced to kill either her husband or her father-in-law? Set against a background of real events, Colours of Hatred is a complex web of events detailing h..