West Africa

No 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...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA 'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH 'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN 'An extraordinary...

The one and only Akwaeke Emezi is back with a breathtaking, sexy and out-of-this world page-turner that will blow away their fans. Son of the Morning weaves together Southern folklore and magic...

An epic fantasy debut inspired by the Yoruba myths. Everyone is blessed with agbara, the power of the sun. Everyone except her. In Oru L'ore is the only one without...

What’s Black about “History of Art”? Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored. In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this...

For readers of Americanah, a heart-rending debut novel about a Nigerian immigrant as she tries to find her place at home and in America-a powerful epic about love, grief, family,...

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLIST As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin...

Nine women, nine stories, woven together in a stunning collection rooted in contemporary Nigeria Funmi Fetto's unforgettable debut brings to life the stories of nine Nigerian women as they navigate race,...

A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by indigenous Igbo culture from the Sunday Times bestselling author - dibias, deities, magic and a twin hunting down her kidnapped brother.We had done and survived...

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago. In 1960s...

Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I don’t leave my place much these days... Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but...

The fate of the Orisha will be decided in the concluding volume of the Guardian of the Gods duology, inspired by Yoruba mythology. Perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin,...

A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of...

Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new...

With a focus on Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's album Sorrow Tears and Blood (1977), this book is an exploration of the artist's critical vision of Nigeria in the aftermath of independence, and a study...

An introduction to traditional and modern Nigerian home cooking featuring 100 delicious recipes by food explorer, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian native of @kitchenbutterfly fame, Ozoz Sokoh. In Nigeria, the word “chop”...

Short-listed Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 A blackly comic novel about lies, love, Lagos, and how blood is thicker — and more difficult to get out of the carpet —...

Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection explores a son’s relationship...

In this groundbreaking novella, Cyprian Ekwensi narrates the spectacular adventures of a nomadic family whose lives are turned upside down when their great leader is cursed by his rival to...

A world-beating exploration of mythology, power and sport From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration...

The Struggle for Democracy An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a...

A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores community expectations, familial strife and the struggle for survival.... A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a...

A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and ‘Queen of African Horror’....

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality.Ihuoma is a woman...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry...

The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head…and the young woman caught in between comes to her...

Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war. Lagos, 1939 With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves...

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye by a major new talent. Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system. Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the...

The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024 The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories...

With Love, Miss Americanah―the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo―sees a teenager move from Nigeria to America and navigate her senior year with the help of classic teen...

An untried acolyte desperate to speak with the orisha she worships accidentally reignites a cosmic war. The fate of her gods and of her world now lies in her inexperienced...

A Nigerian Doctor's Story A young man's medical education in 1990s Nigeria: a deeply personal memoir that provides a window onto ordinary Nigerian lives at a time of political turmoil....

‘We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to be best friends, ever since their grandmothers sat next to each other on...

A Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | BookBub | She Reads | Men's Health | FanFiAddict | Screen Rant | A Library Journal May 2024 Prepub Alert Pick The...

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe,...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY'Fun, sexy, dangerous.' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'A must-read.' GLAMOUR'Addictive.' iNEWS'Poetic, scorchingly graphic.' GUARDIAN'Thrilling.' PEOPLE MAGAZINEReeling with grief from their recent breakup, Kalu...

A beautifully imagined story collection set largely in Nigeria that explores themes of masculinity and repressed desires through the lens of (un)conditional love In this stunning debut story collection set...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned...

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new...

WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 'Fresh funny and fiercely feminist . . . a gut punch of a book' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Powerful and inspiring' GRAZIA 'Innovative and brave,...

An afrofuturistic graphic novel that’s X-Men meets Attack on Titan from the creators at YouNeek Studios (Iyanu: Child of Wonder, Malika: Warrior Queen)! The Asiri Volume 1 begins an epic...

Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors...

From the prize-winning author of WAHALA, a powerful de-colonial retelling of MANSFIELD PARK, exploring identity, culture, race and love When Funke's mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she's sent to live with...

Based on real historical events, Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting 'Run, Àjàyí, run!' The day the Malian slave...

Rumi and his family are Odu, stricken with poverty and disparaged by the other tribes. When ruthless agents of the Palmaine - the colonising nation that dominates the continent of...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fictionWhen Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between...

FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHORLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Boston...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Astonishing... remarkable, mythic' Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple 'Impressive and beautifully imagined' Economist In a small town in western Nigeria, four young...

From the mountains of Northern Italy to the remote forests of Nigeria, diverse fairies from around the world come together in this little encyclopedia . . .  Naughty and nice,...

For fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sanchez, two sisters in Nigeria are separated-one in the lap of luxury, the other fighting for a chance to thrive-in this "unforgettable"...