Africa

A delightful, decadent romance, and a joyful celebration of Black excellence, from an award-winning author.It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape...

The second novel in Marlon James's revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGY In this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on...

Black Panther meets Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch in Beasts Made of Night, the first book in an epic fantasy duology. BuzzFeed's 22 YA Novels You'll Want To Read From Cover...

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary — including using the most deadly magic...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.NOW WE RISE. Zélie Adebola remembers when the...

Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the breathtaking second title in Tomi Adeyemi's YA fantasy trilogy, Legacy of Orïsha, following her ground-breaking, West African-inspired debut Children of Blood and Bone....

A powerful novel concerned with how good people can end up doing terrible things during times of war and conflict. In Now I Am Here, we begin at the end....

Translated by Daniel Hahn An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland,...

An Untold History A Guardian Best Book of 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of...

Following one girl’s journey of magic, injustice, power, and revenge, Deborah Falaye’s debut novel, inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology, is a magnetic combination of Children of Blood and Bone and An...

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice. Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens’ Empire. When she is accused of a murder she didn’t commit, she must solve the mystery to save...

The empire is ruled by blood: red-blooded Embers, blue-blooded Dusters and clear-blooded Ghostings. All will be shed in the coming battle for power. The Aktibar – a set of trials...

Sisters, beware the 'Wasteman of Whitewell' . . . As host of radio show Brown Sugar, Kiki Banjo's mission is to protect her listeners from heartbreak. Which puts Whitewell College's...

Hope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature....

Two worlds collide in Chemutai Glasheen's debut short story collection, I Am the Mau and Other Stories. This enticing collection of contemporary fiction is a celebration of our ubuntu- the...

The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel...

Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World An inspiring young leader’s moving call to action for anyone who seeks to make the world a...

On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural...

Afi thinks marriage is the key to the life she's always wanted. But when she meets Eli, she realises her fairy tale ending may not be quite so straightforward...Afi Tekple...

The stunning second novel from Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese's Book Club pick His Only Wife When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls they were more than just cousins...

Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.If we continue to live as we do now,...

South African Poems of DecolonisationA unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.‘'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 — but i was never born free.' Mjiele...

The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa Diaye and Mademba Diop are two of the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in...

And the brass head of Obalufon Yoruba gods liberating a Nigerian artefact from London's British Museum, this is a heist novel filled to the brim with magic. Shigidi is a...

Comedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has...

Translated by Amy B. Reid The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the...

One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and GratitudeA Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local...

In this stunning debut novel — a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening — a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins...

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn...

Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with...

A memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting...

These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man...

Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi "Set to be one of the best books of 2023" — GQ Magazine "Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" — MUSA OKWONGA "A time-travelling wonder...

In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi brings us a sweeping sci-fi epic in...

A Novel in Interlocking StoriesNonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape forge an unbreakable bond at a Nigerian boarding school, where we meet them for the first time in the middle of...

Lily is a sixteen-year-old living in Manchester. It is nearly five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with...

A New Era of Speculative Fiction From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and...

A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to AmericaI want life.For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped...

A tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her...

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will...

It's hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won't leave you alone...Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer...

A feminist literary classic by one of Africa's greatest writersFirst published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal...

A trailblazing collection of writing on contemporary Africa from across Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life — ranging from musings on politics and culture to deeply personal introspections Binyavanga Wainaina was a...

A spectacular, genre-redefining literary fantasy novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a...

One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine...

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater — Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. They burned down the market on the day...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, this is an exhilarating, funny, whip-smart novel about power and corruption set in the animal kingdom A long time ago, in a bountiful land...

It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Doro is an ancient spirit who, for thousands of years, has cultivated a small village of people in search of...

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn't recognize the country, or anyone in it....