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Men are like rock, but women are water. Quiet and calming or powerful and flowing . . . Be like water and you can break any rock'She's the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster.Yemoja is most at home on the water, like her namesake, the mermaid goddess, she's a true Water Baby. Maybe that's why everyone calls her Baby for short. Baby lives on Makoko, across from the third mainland bridge in Lagos. To the government it's an eyesore where ...

A beautiful coming-of-age story about a young woman who navigates life, love and grief on the lagoon where she was born. Based on the real settlement of Makoko in Nigeria. Perfect for readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the heart of the novel is the village itself and its colourful cast of inhabitants: Babylon, a gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from the city, Mabel and M¿elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths, Magdalena, daughter of ...